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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================