From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 03:51:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] General object parsing
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504172337380.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504172206460.30848-100000@iabervon.org>

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> > But if there are simple helper functions to get the "next backwards in 
> > time" case (by looking at the parent dates in a merge), then that should 
> > be ok to do incrementally.
> 
> Haven't written that yet, but I can do so.

Okay, I wrote this. I now have a merge-base that will find the most recent
ancestor while never looking at any parents of any commit older than the
answer. (But I'll let the previous stuff get reviewed first)

	-Daniel
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