Re: Gitk feature - show nearby tags

> "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In a less corner case, just to better explaing my idea, consider this:
>>
>>          a---b---d---e---f---g---h
>>          t1   \ /              t3
>>             ---c
>>                t2
>>
>> Where our sha1 is still "e", in this case
>>
>> git-rev-list  --topo-order <e>  ^a  ^c   ^g
>>
>> gives, as last revision in output list, "f"
>> Then parentOf(<f>) is <g> and our looked for tag is t3
>
> Sorry, in the example time flows from left to right.  If you
> exclude g then you are excluding everything that is reachable
> from g so you would not see "f".
>
> Even if your example is different from what I gave (which had
> "a" as the root commit) and h is the root commit, your ^a and ^c
> would exclude everything that is reachable from either a or c,
> so you would get an empty set.  So your "last revision in
> output" would not be "f" either.