From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:19:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] git-merge-base: follow 'prior' links to find merge bases
Message-ID: <7vlktu2pvn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060425043106.18382.48165.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz> writes:

> From: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
>
> It is possible that a good merge base may be found looking via "prior"
> links as well.  We follow them where possible.

You need to define what "prior" means before making decision
like that.  If "prior" can mean cherry-picked one from unrelated
line of development, the above reasoning does not apply.