From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:23:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] Out of memory on git log --simplify-by-decoration --first-parent
Message-ID: <4FD25F34.1060400@lyx.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vwr3hbm6x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Op 8-6-2012 22:09, Junio C Hamano schreef:
> Vincent van Ravesteijn<vfr@lyx.org>  writes:
>
>> git dies after calling the following command on the git repo:
>>
>> $ git log f623ca1c...b9cfa4e9 --simplify-by-decoration --first-parent
> I wouldn't be surprised anything random happens when --first-parent
> is used together with simplify_merges(); the function needs full
> analysis of all commits in the specified range, and first-parent
> traversal specifically tells us not to descend into other parents.
> It might not be a bad idea to forbid this combination when the
> command line options are parsed.
>
> What information were you trying to get out of the above command?

I was using gitk and I tried to simplify the history a bit, just for 
visualization,... so I tried by checking "Limit to first parent" and 
"Simple history". Then, git errored out with an out-of-memory error.

Vincent