From: Jon Seymour Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:03:51 GMT Subject: Re: [EXPERIMENTAL PATCH] O(n) bisection algorithm Message-ID: <2cfc4032050630020359c76147@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050630081135.27577.qmail@blackcubes.dyndns.org> BTW: just in case you are wondering what these variables are for and why they and the associated code is there... > +static struct commit_list * topological_order = NULL; > +static struct commit_list ** t_o_tail = &topological_order; They are not required. This was a remnant of a previous version that used the --merge-order code to obtain the topological order. Of course, the final submission will remove this redundant code. jon.