{"thread":{"id":"55006","subject":"Re: DEVEL: Help with feature implementation","startedAt":"2021-01-19T08:31:47Z","lastAt":"2021-01-19T08:31:47Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Aiyee Bee"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"414675","messageId":"C8MVRAPKXPBQ.1W6AFAP98O91P@localhost","threadId":"55006","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Re: DEVEL: Help with feature implementation","fromName":"Aiyee Bee","fromEmail":"shane.880088.supw@gmail.com","sentAt":"2021-01-19T05:20:26Z","receivedAt":"2021-01-19T08:31:47Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"shane.880088.supw@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Forwarded message from Aiyee Bee on Tue Jan 19, 2021 at 4:58 AM:\nHi Derrick and Junio!\n\nThanks for confirming my suspicions, that there isn't existing apparatus\nfor doing this, and a new bit can be added as a flag. Thanks for the\n*pointers, I'll try working it out! With Antonio, in fact, since they'd\nneed the same thing for implementing the opposite feature.\n\nAs for the justification, to elaborate on what I said in the opening\nmail:\n\nThis option would be pretty useful when used with diff options, to see\nhow\nmuch two forks have diverged. I recently wanted to compare two\nlong-running\nforks of a project and see how far they have diverged. I used the\noptions:\n--simplufy-by-decoration --decorate-refs=\"refs/remotes/*/main\" -p\n\nBut currently with this history simplification, the diffs for both\ndivergent\nhistories will be created against the last \"relevant\" (decorated) commit\ninstead of the last common ancestor, which creates pretty useless diffs\nwith\na lot of intersection between them.\n\nYou're right that the option doesn't sound very useful when thought of\nin\nregards to history limiting by path, but IMO it's pretty useful in cases\nlike these, when you use simplify to get an 'overview' of the history.\n\nAlso sorry for the blank/duplicate emails everyone! My email client\nseems to\nbe misbehaving, largely because I tried to tinker with it :P\n\n- Aiyee Bee\n\n"}]}