Re: clarification of `rev-list --no-walk ^<rev>`?

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>

Date

Sep 19, 2016, 20:12 UTC

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From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>

> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>>>     Philip probably has a
>>> confused notion

Hi Junio,

Could you clarify a particular point from here..

> The "--no-walk" tells the rev-list machinery "I have only positives;
> do not traverse from them AT ALL but just use these positives".
> Only under that condition, the order of the positive ends you list
> on the command line matters.