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Re: [PATCH] rev-list: fix --reverse interaction with --parents

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 31, 2008, 05:51 UTC
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> The bad news: I got as far as understanding that the repeated
> simplification must be at fault, but gave up on trying to see exactly
> _which step_ breaks the output.  Obviously parent rewriting is the
> prime suspect.

Yeah, I noticed that running simplify_commit() (hence rewrite_parents()) more than once on the same commit seems to do "unexpected" things, during my (hitherto unsuccessful) attempt to to make the --simplify-merges machinery incremental.

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Message 4 of 4 in “rev-list --reverse --full-history --parents with path limiter disconnects history”
  1. Johannes SixtAug 21, 2008
  2. rev-list: fix --reverse interaction with --parentsThomas Rast, Aug 29, 2008
  3. Johannes SixtAug 29, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2008

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