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Re: detecting cycles in Git's commit graph

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Apr 30, 2009, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID
<20090430192714.GT23604@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<20090430191857.GA55192@ginosko.grantstreet.com>
Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org> wrote:
> Are there any tools for detecting cycles in the commit graph which
> have been caused by grafts?  I thought 'git fsck' might do it, but it
> doesn't seem to.

Nope. Cycles don't happen in a DAG. So nobody has created tools for it. :-)

Yes, grafts are impure and can be used to cause a cycle, which is
one reason among many we don't encourage them being used.
 
-- 
Shawn.
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