Re: [PATCH 0/7] gitweb: Trying to improve history view speed

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 6, 2006, 19:04 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609061202230.27779@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <edn54s$c4s$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> 
> Well, I just didn't realize that --parents gives parents in _simplified_
> history, unless --full-history is used. Hence my confusion.

Right. That's really the main reason for "--parents" existing in the first place. I added it exactly so that "gitk" would work with pathname limiting.

If you don't want the simplified history parents, you might as well just parse the parents information directly from the commit data yourself (although with grafting, there's arguably _some_ reason to have git-rev-list do it for you regardless of simplification).

			Linus

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