Re: history damage in linux.git

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 21, 2016, 18:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20160421180932.GB12950@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzYWoeUq3MFgGtELaN-2sEc4j3egsAHZHVzK1CNPOqhKQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:59:52AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> That said, I do think that a much bigger conceptual change that
> actually does full traversal and be much more complicated might be the
> only "correct" solution.
> 
> So my patch is just a "improve heuristics" small fixlet rather than
> something optimal.

Yeah, I'd agree with both points. Unless somebody is planning to work on the bigger change in the near future, your patch is a strict improvement to the heuristic, and is worth applying.

-Peff