parent commit

A parent commit from which this commit was derived — the provenance spine of the commit DAG. Non-functional: a merge commit has multiple parents; the initial commit has none.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Commit -> gmeow:Commit Sub-property of: gmeow:commitAncestor, gmeow:wasDerivedFrom

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:parentCommit from gmeow:Commit to gmeow:Commit when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:commitAncestor, gmeow:wasDerivedFrom, gmeow:Commit