From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:30:01 GMT Subject: Re: Following renames Message-ID: <7vodzsny4m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds 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.