Re: [PATCH v3-wip] revision traversal: show full history with merge simplification
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Aug 1, 2008, 07:50 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> It was even worse than that. >> >> The output from v3 is incorrect > > Ok. I'm really not surprised. Incrementally is really hard. I'm reminded > of all the problems we had with just the "trivial" issue of just knowing > when to consider something uninteresting or not, that ended up depending > on commit timestamps etc, and had problems with people having their clocks > set incorrectly. > > Doing the ops once you have the full DAG is usually _trivial_ by > comparison.
Surely. I wasn't productive tonight anyway, and I'll give up for now and keep the post-processing version in 'pu', perhaps queued in 'next' during the 1.6.0-rc period. Perhaps somebody cleverer than me will feel itchy enough to make an incremental version someday ;-)