Re: [PATCH 7/6] ref-filter: use generation number for --contains

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 4, 2018, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <8a830161-ece7-44ba-e9f2-11073bd23802@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180404194248.GA14055@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 4/4/2018 3:42 PM, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 03:22:01PM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>
>> That is the idea. I should make this clearer in all of my commit messages.
> Yes, please. :) And maybe in the documentation of the file format, if
> it's not there (I didn't check). It's a very useful property, and we
> want to make sure people making use of the graph know they can depend on
> it.

For v2, I'll expand on the roles of _UNDEF and _NONE in the discussion of generation numbers in Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt (the design doc instead of the file format).

Thanks, -Stolee

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