Re: gitk problems: can't unset "idinlist(...)"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 21, 2007, 05:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20070721055918.GA22399@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707202226130.27249@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:53:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> With "arch/i386", I get the 7ed409 one, with "arch/i386 arch/x86_64" I get 
> a complaint about 57d1c91fa. In neither case do I see the reason.

Oops, I thought you were using a different command line.

Show 5 quoted lines

> 	git log --topo-order --parents --pretty=one arch/i386/ arch/x86_64/
> 
> and search for it, it first shows up as a parent for commit 9fdb62af92: 
> and not just _one_ parent, but three! So it looks like the parent 
> simplification is broken, and maybe gitk is unhappy for that reason.

OK, that should make it easier to find (note also that 9fdb62af92 is an octopus, which might be related).

> Junio, didn't we have some parent simplification patches recently?

v1.5.2 works, so I am bisecting.

-Peff