On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 8:33 PM Christian Couder <christian.cou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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."
By the way things might even be clearer by replacing "parent" with "ancestor" in my message.
