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Re: I just pulled and built 'next'...

From
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date
Jan 9, 2007, 13:54 UTC
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<20070109135401.GB17352@thunk.org>
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<20070109032124.GA1904@spearce.org>
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:21:24PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> So what about doing Junio's suggestion of going by topology and
> coming up with the possible set of tags (v1.5.0-rc0 and v1.4.4.4
> right now), and if more than one is found compute the number of
> commits between each tag and the requested revision, and take the
> tag that has a smallest number of commits?

Ah, thanks for showing the example using git-rev-list. I was assuming "topology" based on the distance as shown by gitk, and that's quite different from what git-rev-list shows. Agreed, that hueristic makes a lot of sense.

						- Ted
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  1. Theodore Ts'oJan 8, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2007
  3. Theodore TsoJan 8, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceJan 9, 2007
  5. Andreas EricssonJan 9, 2007
  6. Theodore TsoJan 9, 2007
  7. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 9, 2007
  8. Shawn O. PearceJan 10, 2007
  9. Uwe Kleine-KoenigJan 10, 2007

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