Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add support for 'namespace' history simplification

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> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:25:46 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Add support for 'namespace' history simplification
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> Maybe this is mis-named, but what it does is to simplify history not by
> the contents of the tree, but whether a commit has been named (ie it's
> referred to by some branch or tag) or not.

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> This makes it possible to see the relationship between different named
> commits, without actually seeing any of the details.
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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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> This is the actual real meat of the logic, and it's really trivial. The
> actual code is really just a simple
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>    if (simplify-by-namespace)
>        return lookup_decoration(..) ? REV_TREE_DIFFERENT : REV_TREE_SAME;