Re: git-rev-list: add "--dense" flag

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Oct 22, 2005, 00:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20051022003733.GA8351@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510211631400.10477@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 01:40:54AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...

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> When we use a path filter to git-rev-list, the new "--dense" flag asks
> git-rev-list to compress the history so that it _only_ contains commits
> that change files in the path filter.  It also rewrites the parent
> information so that tools like "gitk" will see the result as a dense
> history tree.

There is no documentation for the --dense flag and it is even missing from the usage string.

But my main concern is - will it be possible to do the rename detection here as well? Using --dense instead of explicit diff-tree calls in cg-log would be nice optimization, but I was about to add support for optional following of renames for cg-log <filename>. That's really pretty useful to have, every time I hit the Junio's big scripts rename I keep repeating that to myself. ;-) Now when core GIT got the comfort of per-file history, I only hope that it will start to annoy you as well.

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