Re: Strange behavior of git rev-list

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 11:50:25AM +0200, Paweł Marczewski wrote:

I don't think there's a way to turn it off for `rev-list`. Merge-base computations are more careful, so you could determine the correct endpoints that way. But when you fed them to `rev-list`, it would hit the same run of skewed commits.

We've discussed storing true generation numbers in the past, which would make this optimization more robust, as well as allow us to speed up many other traversals (e.g., the "tag --contains"). It's something I'd like to revisit, but it's not at the top of the pile.

In the meantime, it would probably be possible to write a patch that conditionally disables the optimization. But it would mean all of your rev-lists run a _lot_ slower.

-Peff