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Re: gitk-1.0 released

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 21, 2005, 16:35 UTC
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On Sat, 21 May 2005, Jon Seymour wrote:
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> >     - mark everything reachable from OLD_HEAD as being uninteresting (aka
> >       "seen"), and everything that reaches OLD_HEAD as being interesting
> >       and print it out.
> 
> Won't this step end up traversing back to the root anyway?

Sorry, bad wording on my part. Here "reachable" means only withing the context of "currently parsed", not "globally reachable".

So no, the reachability tests would not traverse anywhere new.
		Linus
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  4. Paul MackerrasMay 19, 2005
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  7. Kari HameenahoMay 20, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 20, 2005
  9. Jon SeymourMay 21, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsMay 21, 2005
  11. Benjamin HerrenschmidtMay 19, 2005
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