Hi there!
I've been looking for a method to check whether one commit is reachable
from another via first-parent traverse (without traversing tree manually)
and I've stumbled into strange git rev-parse behavior.
Imagine following git tree:
--A---B---C--
\ /
D---E
In this tree commit B is the first parent of C.
1. How do I check whether B or E are reachable from C by first parent?
*git rev-list --first-parent B..C *and *git rev-list --first-parent E..C*
both return SHA of C
2. The issue I'm reporting is that *git rev-list --first-parent
--ancestry-path* seems to behave wrong:
*git rev-list --first-parent --ancestry-path E..C* returns SHA of C, while
(according to *man git rev-parse)* "--ancestry-path" should restrict
command output to commits being both descendants of E and ancestors of C.
*git rev-list --first-parent --ancestry-path E^..C* returns zero commits
which is correct.
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