On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:52:59AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   embarrassed to admit i don't know this, but is there a revision
> > symbol for a repo's root commit? i don't think i've ever seen that
> > mentioned anywhere.
>
> gitrevisions(7) has nothing, but doesn't git support many roots? How
> would you differentiate? How would you even refer to roots not
> reachable from the current HEAD?

  obviously(?), i'd want the root reachable from the current (or some
given) commit. orphan branches are another issue.

rday

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