From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:15:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Bizarre missing changes (git bug?)
Message-ID: <7vabfy52p0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vej5b3ozz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> The idea is to compute, for each commit in the "full history" result set,
> the commit that should replace it in the simplified history.  This
> replacement commit is defined as follows:
>
>  * In any case, we first figure out the replacement commits of parents of
>    the commit we are looking at.  The commit we are looking at is
>    rewritten as if its parents are replacement commits of its original
>    parents.
>
>  * If the commit is marked as TREESAME (i.e. it modifies the paths we are
>    interested in), then the replacement commit is itself.  IOW, the commit
>    is not dropped from the final result.

A typo here.  This comment should have said !TREESAME (the code is correct).