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Re: a few remaining issues...

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 10, 2007, 01:23 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0701100220370.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > However, once the reflog traversal hits the oldest reflog entry, it 
> > reverts to commit parent traversal.
> 
> That doesn't make sense...
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > > I couldn't make heads or tails out of the patch and did not understand 
> > > what it was trying to do.  It looked as if you were making the log 
> > > traversal machinery to walk _both_ reflog (probably from the latest to 
> > > older) and the usual ancestry.
> > 
> > Yes, first reflog, then usual ancestry.
> > 
> > Would you want that changed to _only_ reflog traversal?
> 
> Yes.  The old ancestry has nothing to do with my local reflog.  I
> want to know where my reflog ends, as there's no record of that
> branch's lifespan before that point.
> 
> Right now I have a reflog on `pu` which I've had since reflogs were
> first introduced last summer.  Yet it only goes back to Dec 23, 2006.
> Looking at the old ancestry of pu back into last Oct isn't really
> interesting when I'm studying what changes happened to locally.

Fair enough. It actually simplifies the patch. And if you want to dig on, you can just "git log pu@{whatever}", right?

So, is this wanted? (If not, I'd rather spend my time on my day job...)

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Junio C HamanoJan 5, 2007
  2. Alex RiesenJan 5, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2007
  4. Alex RiesenJan 10, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2007
  6. Alex RiesenJan 10, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 5, 2007
  8. Shawn O. PearceJan 5, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 9, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2007
  12. Shawn O. PearceJan 10, 2007
  13. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2007
  14. Juergen RuehleJan 5, 2007
  15. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2007

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