From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 03:05:24 GMT
Subject: Re: cogito - how do I ???
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505232000400.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1DaP7k-0007ar-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>



On Tue, 24 May 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> Yes please.  Can we also have a rev-* command that outputs parent
> relations instead of a simple list? That is,
> 
> <tree-1> <parent-1>
> <tree-1> <parent-2>
> <tree-2> <parent-3>

That's not <tree-n>, it's <commit-n>.

I think that would be "git-rev-list --parents" or something - that 
wouldn't impact any existing users.

Patches welcome.

As to git-rev-tree, that's likely used by scripts in various places 
(cogito, gitk, gitweb etc), so changing that is nastier, but at least the 
output could be _sorted_ better.

Of course, I really think that the bigger problem with git-rev-tree
currently is that global reachability analysis, which is just not
acceptable performance-wise.

		Linus