From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:58:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git-rev-list: --objects list inconsistency
Message-ID: <7vlkmdzz9v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4559E6A9.9A30A236@eudaptics.com>

Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> writes:

> I observed a puzzling behavior of git-rev-list:
>
> $ git-rev-list master^^..master 
> f3364ca9405e17772fecea1d06c40b9965b8e6e4
> bb3bfda219a85d2d49e62c261b9c8f6795ebdc22
> $ git-rev-list --max-count=2 master 
> f3364ca9405e17772fecea1d06c40b9965b8e6e4
> bb3bfda219a85d2d49e62c261b9c8f6795ebdc22
> $ git-rev-list --objects master^^..master |wc -l
>      10

You are asking to get objects reachable from master but exclude
objects reachable from master^^.

> $ git-rev-list --objects --max-count=2 master |wc -l
>    2376

You are asking to get objects reachable from master and master^.

You have 2300+ objects that are common in trees of master,
master^ and master^^.