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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 12, 2005, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509121438150.3266@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050912210006.GA32211@vrfy.org>

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:

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> 
> Everthing that walk from one commit to another, uses git-rev-list, sure.
> But in the commit view, and the commitdiff the "parent" link and the parent
> that is passed to diff is read from the commit itself.
> 
> > (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).
> 
> I need only one parent:
>   git-rev-list --parents --max-count=1 <id>

Who don't you use that to show the comments too?

So instead of doing

	git-cat-file commit <id>

(or whatever you do), just do

	git-rev-list --parents --pretty=raw --max-count=1 <id>

That way you don't get any extra fork/exec overhead - you get everything with one program.

		Linus