From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 22:25:40 GMT
Subject: Re: commit-graph: change in "best" merge-base when ambiguous
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xpC6bSy0wJhmgT=UMev2AdDz0LVG11Ok7Y5j0Fsr-s08Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180521215443.GC16623@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Yes, I think this is clearly a case where all of the single merge-bases
> we could show are equally good. And I don't think we should promise to
> show a particular one, but I _do_ think it's friendly for us to have
> deterministic tie-breakers (we certainly don't now).
>
> -Peff

Right. I think we should probably have some mechanism that will allow
us to always give the same answer, even if it's somewhat arbitrary.

Regards,
Jake