From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:50:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop git-rev-list at sha1 match
Message-ID: <20050511225058.GK22686@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1115851742.22180.154.camel@tglx>

Dear diary, on Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:49:02AM CEST, I got a letter
where Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> told me that...
> Rn   o
>      | \
> Rn-1 o  |
>      |  o Mn
>      |  o Mn-1
> Rn-2 o /
> Rn-3 o
> 
> If you are in Repository R, then tracking Rn to Rn-123 gives you a
> linear result depending on the stop point you chose.
> Rn
> ---- Stop = Rn-1
> Rn-1
> ---- Stop = Rn-2

Mn
Mn-1

> Rn-2
> ---- Stop = Rn-3
> 
> The diff between Rn and Rn-1 contains always the changes merged from M

Yes, but you get the merge commits again since rev-list follows all the
parents.

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