Re: Following renames

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 27, 2006, 07:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7vodzsny4m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603261509320.15714@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> No. "--sparse" still removes the uninteresting parents of merges. It just 
> doesn't then make the linear history any denser.

Hmph, you are right. add_parents_to_list() calls prune_fn unconditionally while running limit_list().

Disabling that with yet another flag might be a possibility but I suspect then it would not be much different from running rev-list without path limiter and having the caller process the result.

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