Re: [Q] Abbreviated history graph?

> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> I'll post a simple series of four commits in a moment.
> ...
> Side note: it's certainly possible that we could improve on this. Right 
> now, "--simplify-namespace" will totally override any path simplification, 
> so you can't get a combination of pathnames _and_ naming commits. I don't 
> know exactly what the rules should be, but I could imagine that we could 
> do something like:
>
>  - if no pathnames are given, work the way the current patch-series works.
>
>  - if path-names are given, make rev_compare_tree() truen 
>    REV_TREE_DIFFERENT if a name decoration _or_ a tree difference exists.
>
> Anyway, that's a fairly trivial extension to the idea, and doesn't really 
> matter for the basic code. It can easily be left for later.