Re: [RFH] revision limiting sometimes ignored

> Once we find the set of bottom commits in "newlist", we would
> need to prove that none of them can be reached from any of the
> negative commits still in "list".  We can do this traversal
> using two bits from flags, exactly like commit.c::merge_bases()
>
>     for each bottom commit B {
>       L = empty list
>       B.flags |= PARENT2
>       L.append(B)
>       for each negative commit C in "list from limit_list()"
>           C.flags |= PARENT1
>           L.append(C)
>       while (L) {
>           C = shift L;
>           flag = C.flags & (PARENT1|PARENT2);
>             if (flag ==  (PARENT1|PARENT2))
>               continue; /* common */
>           for each parent P of commit C:
>               pflag = P.flags & (PARENT1|PARENT2);
>               if (pflag == flag)
>                     continue;
>               P.flags |= flags;
>                 L.append(P)
>       }
>       if (B.flags & PARENT1)
>           we still need to traverse -- everybody_uninteresting()
>           in limit_list() main loop was not enough!
>     }