Re: name-rev does not show the shortest path

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 25, 2007, 15:04 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708251701150.16728@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v6434eq9o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I _think_ name-rev goes for shorter-to-type tags and does not have any 
> other heuristics.  Dscho?

I briefly looked into this, and did not find out why it is behaving that way. It _should_ pick the closer one with this code:

        } else if (name->merge_traversals > merge_traversals ||
                        (name->merge_traversals == merge_traversals &&
                         name->generation > generation)) {

However, it did not even get to that code in my tests. I'll have to look at that problem closer in a quiet moment (which I will not have for at least another 24 hours).

Ciao, Dscho