On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 7:11 PM Alban Gruin <alban.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A ref may not be the descendant of all of the commits mentionned in > stdin. In this case, we want to avoid naming its parents.
Properly speaking a ref usually just points to a commit. It is not a parent or a descendant of any commit. Also if the commit, let's call it C, pointed to by a ref isn't a descendant of a commit, let's call it C', mentioned on stdin, then C' isn't a parent of C, though I think we want to avoid naming C' from the ref. I think it might be clearer with something like: "The commit, let's call it C, pointed to by a ref may not be a descendant of all the commits mentioned on stdin. In this case we want to avoid naming the commits mentioned on stdin that are not parents of C using the ref." Or is there something I misunderstood?
