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Re: Kernel headers git tree

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jul 14, 2006, 05:52 UTC
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, David Woodhouse wrote:
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> 
> > But that thing is doubly strange, because it uses "." as a path specifier. 
> > If this is done in the top-most directory, that should mean "all changes", 
> > which in turn means that the whole thing should be equivalent to
> > 
> > 	git rev-parse "$1^0"
> > 
> > since all commits should make _some_ change, and thus the first revision 
> > in the list should always be the top commit - the one you passed in as an 
> > argument.
> 
> In this case, I really do have commits in the intermediate tree which
> don't actually change anything, and I want to filter them out -- I
> couldn't see a simple way to do it all in one pass.

Btw, I'm actually surprised that my path simplification didn't filter out the "." and make it mean exactly the same as not giving a path at all. I thought I had done that earlier, but if you say "-- ." matters, then it obviously does..

		Linus
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Message 14 of 27 in “Kernel headers git tree”
  1. David WoodhouseJul 13, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2006
  3. David WoodhouseJul 14, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsJul 14, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsJul 14, 2006
  7. David WoodhouseJul 14, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 14, 2006
  9. David WoodhouseJul 14, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 14, 2006
  11. Daniel BarkalowJul 14, 2006
  12. David WoodhouseJul 14, 2006
  13. Daniel BarkalowJul 14, 2006
  14. Linus TorvaldsJul 14, 2006
  15. David WoodhouseJul 14, 2006
  16. Linus TorvaldsJul 14, 2006
  17. Trivial path optimization testAlex Riesen, Jul 17, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2006
  19. Alex RiesenJul 24, 2006
  20. Trivial path optimization testAlex Riesen, Jul 24, 2006
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2006
  22. David WoodhouseJul 14, 2006
  23. Ian CampbellJul 14, 2006
  24. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2006
  25. Ingo OeserJul 14, 2006
  26. David WoodhouseJul 14, 2006
  27. Ingo OeserJul 18, 2006

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