From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:36:08 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in git.git
Message-ID: <7vwtf8fzvb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603051027400.13139@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Actually, thinking more about it, I think we could get rid of SHOWN.
>
> We only ever insert a commit _once_ onto the list, using the SEEN logic, 
> so we can never pull the same commit off the list more than once. I think 
> SHOWN was for merge-order.
>
> But I might be wrong. I was thinking about SHOWN a bit when I did the 
> re-organization, but didn't dare to actually touch it, so I left it alone.

I abused SHOWN when I did --objects-edge with
mark_edge_parents_uninteresting modification in
eb38cc689e84a8fd01c1856e889fe8d3b4f1bfb4, but probably it can be
modified to use SEEN.