From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:04:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] gitweb: Trying to improve history view speed
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