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?