On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:03:29PM +0100, John Keeping wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 03:24:26PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: > > Only consider the first parent commit when walking the commit history. This > > is useful if you only wish to match tags on your branch after a merge. > > For consistency with "git log" should this be called "--first-parent"? > > In "git log" --left-only takes effect only when considering a symmetric > range, which "git describe" isn't. Whereas --first-parent triggers > precisely the behaviour described here.
I think you're right. I'm happy to rename it and resubmit if the rest of the patch passes muster. Thanks. Mike. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
