From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:51:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: fix --reverse interaction with --parents Message-ID: <7vtzd1d969.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1220037518-11219-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch> Thomas Rast 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.