Re: [PATCH] fast-export: Avoid dropping files from commits

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 26, 2009, 00:40 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903260138410.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <51419b2c0903251706n7cfa053eheff542d20ca9a753@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Elijah Newren wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> -     if (commit->parents) {
> >> +     if (commit->parents &&
> >> +         get_object_mark(&commit->parents->item->object) != 0) {
> >>               parse_commit(commit->parents->item);
> >>               diff_tree_sha1(commit->parents->item->tree->object.sha1,
> >>                              commit->tree->object.sha1, "", &rev->diffopt);
> >
> > I do not understand that change.
> >
> > A good explanation in the commit message might help this stupid 
> > developer.
> 
> I resent the patch in another email (sorry for the duplication, but I 
> don't trust gmail to preserve patches, and responding inline to comments 
> via git-send-email isn't so great either).  Let me know if the 
> explanation is missing anything, is too detailed, or is using incorrect 
> terminology.  In two cases I was sufficiently unsure about my wording 
> that I provided extra wording to try to make it clear what I was talking 
> about.

I am pretty tired, but I still have the impression that I understood it, so yes, I like it.

You might want to skip the != 0, though, as we avoid that in the rest of Git's source code, too.

Thanks, Dscho