From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 22:49:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Occasional wrong behavior of rev-walking (rev-list, log, etc.)
Message-ID: <20150521224956.GA23810@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq617llw6k.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:41:55AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> 
> > My guess is that rev-walking is tripping on the fact that this repository
> > has commit dates in random order.
> 
> Yeah, that is well known (look for SLOP both in the code and list
> archive).

I found the recent thread about git describe --contains. (and now I
realize this is also why git describe --contains doesn't work quite well
for the same repository).

Now the question is what can we done in the short term? (short of
introducing something like generation numbers) I tried increasing
SLOP and to remove the date check (with the hope that making one or
both configurable might help). Neither fixed the particular test
case I started this thread with.

Mike