From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:45:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Unexpected behavior in git-rev-list
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509211144141.2553@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyryw9ra.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> Ah, you told him to use 'rev-list --parents' and you can rewrite
> the list of parents there -- clever.

Exactly. 

Yes, anything that would parse the "raw" commit information would be very 
lost indeed, and not able to figure out parenthood from the sparse list. 
But gitk already uses the "fakey" parents.

		Linus