From: Brian Foster <brian.foster@maxim-ic.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:56:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [Q] Determing if a commit is reachable from the HEAD ?
Message-ID: <201201240956.15624.brian.foster@maxim-ic.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk44i9z99.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Monday 23 January 2012 17:09:38 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Brian Foster <brian.foster@maxim-ic.com> writes:
> >  I am probably misunderstanding ‘--quiet’, which the
> >  man page cryptically describes as “... allow the
> >  caller to test the exit status to see if a range
> >  of objects is fully connected (or not).”  What is
> >  meant here by “fully connected” ?
> 
> If the real history looks like this:
> 
>  ---Y---x---HEAD
> 
> i.e. the commit at HEAD says "parent x" in it, and your [repository]
> lacks "x" for whatever reason, Y..HEAD is not fully connected.

 Ah, Ok.  Thanks!  Then YES, I misunderstood ‘--quiet’.
 The man page caused me to think it was functionally
 equivalent to ‘git rev-list STUFF >/dev/null’.

cheers!
	-blf-

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