From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:27:14 GMT
Subject: Re: detecting cycles in Git's commit graph
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.