Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jun 2, 2006, 06:40 UTC
Message-ID: <7vac8wdpr5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606011809401.5498@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> You're much better off using "gitk --all" if you want to see the result, 
> the "show-branch" this is really broken. It is using the old algorithm 
> that we used to use for "git-rev-tree", and got rid of about a year ago 
> there in favour of git-rev-list ;)

Are you sure about it? My recollection is it uses the merge-base logic, naturally enhanced for multiple heads.

And enhancing it to support more than one int wide bitmap should not be too difficult, although looking at the output would be very taxing for human eye, so I do not know if it is worth it.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.