Re: [PATCH 4/2] Fix parent rewriting in --early-output

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 13, 2007, 18:53 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbq9yt1te.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <18233.30098.470244.421468@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:

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> In fact it would be easier for me if, instead of getting the id of
> some random ancestor commit, I got an explicit indication to say
> "unknown parent", such as just a "-" in place of the id of the
> unknown parent(s).  Would that be doable?  I could then just not do
> the processing for any unknown parent, and make sure to do it when I
> see the final version of the commit.

I suspect that a "-" in place of a commit object name may not be enough for your purpose, as the _number_ of parents can later change in the later re-output.

I wonder if the presense of "incomplete" on the "Final output" line is a good enough indication for that. That is, until you see "Final output: $N done", you will treat the parent information as unreliable.