From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:53:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: fix --reverse interaction with --parents
Message-ID: <200808292153.59376.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <1220037518-11219-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Freitag, 29. August 2008, Thomas Rast wrote:
> Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > This command does not give the expected result: It reports *two* initial
> > commits and one merge; in particular, commit X is reported as initial
> > commit.
> >
> > $ git rev-list --parents --reverse --full-history master -- P2
>
> The good news is: the patch really does fix your issue.  It also fixes
> the test case (which uses the history from the diagram above).  And it
> passes the test suite.

Thanks for picking up the topic and helping out. It does indeed work with my 
example.

I let others comment whether this patch is good. I've no clue how the revision 
walker machinery works.

-- Hannes