Re: name-rev does not show the shortest path

> On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:38:22PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > The old code _should_ have worked; it is more likely that your 
> > different metric just hides the bug.  The old metric tried to favour 
> > less merge traversals over more traversals, but at the same time, it 
> > favoured smaller numbers over larger ones (but as you found out, only 
> > in the last component).
> 
> Right, the problem is that we have effectively _thrown away_ the
> "smaller numbers over larger ones" information for components other than
> the last.