Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2021, #06; Sat, 30)

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2021, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID: <66be51fb-f40c-5712-8e48-346ca53bd9e8@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsg6infev.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On 1/30/2021 7:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * ds/merge-base-independent (2021-01-28) 3 commits
>  - commit-reach: use heuristic in remove_redundant()
>  - commit-reach: move compare_commits_by_gen
>  - commit-reach: use one walk in remove_redundant()
>  (this branch uses ak/corrected-commit-date; is tangled with ds/chunked-file-api.)
> 
>  The code to implement "git merge-base --independent" was poorly
>  done and was kept from the very beginning of the feature.
> 
>  Will merge to 'next'.

Please hold off until I can push a new version. There were some meaningful updates to the new algorithm, but also there is value in the old algorithm when the commit-graph does not exist (and the heuristic doesn't answer quickly). I'll comment more in that thread.

Thanks, -Stolee