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Re: hmm, can't we give the "root" a parent?

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 12, 2005, 20:21 UTC
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
> And good to know about that, need to fix the "parent" link in gitweb to
> respect grafts.

Note that the simplest way to do this is to try to use "git-rev-list" as much as possible. The "--parents" flag makes the output have the parents (automatically _including_ any grafts) on the line that contains the commit ID.

That's especially true of any tools that use git-rev-list anyway for other reasons. Eg "gitk" could parse the parent stuff this way, and didn't need to know about the info/grafts file at all. I suspect the same should be true of gitweb.

(So instead of trying to parse the parent info from the header of the commit, just do "git-rev-list --pretty --parents" and parse that).

		Linus
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