From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:10:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Following renames
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603261509320.15714@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vodzsq12g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> >> No, it's the expected output just because you expected merges to always 
> >> show up. Merges get ignored if any of the parents have the same content 
> >> already.
> >
> > Eek. Can I avoid that? What was the reason for choosing this behavior?
> 
> Perhaps rev-list --sparse?

No. "--sparse" still removes the uninteresting parents of merges. It just 
doesn't then make the linear history any denser.

		Linus