From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:12:51 GMT
Subject: Re: clarification of `rev-list --no-walk ^<rev>`?
Message-ID: <DDC820F0373F4534B4A9D12E8B7B866B@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqintrek64.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

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.

What does "--do-walk" do ("Overrides a previous --no-walk"), and when would 
it be applied?

--
Philip