From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:07:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git-rev-list: add "--dense" flag
Message-ID: <20051025180707.GA7463@diku.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510211631400.10477@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote Fri, Oct 21, 2005:
> To see this in action, try something like
> 
> 	gitk --dense -- gitk
> 
> to see just the history that affects gitk.

Is the initial commit supposed to be listed when the file has been added
later? I would expect it to only list until (and including) the commit
where the file was introduced.

	prompt > git-rev-list --dense HEAD -- compat/mmap.c
	f48000fcbe1009c18f1cc46e56cde2cb632071fa
	730d48a2ef88a7fb7aa4409d40b1e6964a93267f
	e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290
	prompt > git-cat-file commit e83c
	tree 2b5bfdf7798569e0b59b16eb9602d5fa572d6038
	author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> 1112911993 -0700
	committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> 1112911993 -0700

	Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell

Interestingly, for the special gitk, the correct commit is the last rev
listed.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca