Re: gitk problems: can't unset "idinlist(...)"

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 21, 2007, 05:53 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707202226130.27249@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070721050912.GB20622@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> Interestingly, I repeatably get the exact same error but with a
> different commit:
> 
>   7ed40918a386afc2e14a6d3da563ea6d13686c25
> 
> which looks like a totally uninteresting commit.

It seems to depend on the path limiter.

With "arch/i386", I get the 7ed409 one, with "arch/i386 arch/x86_64" I get a complaint about 57d1c91fa. In neither case do I see the reason.

But I think I found a clue. One thing special about that 57d1c91fa is that when you do

	git log --topo-order --parents --pretty=one arch/i386/ arch/x86_64/

and search for it, it first shows up as a parent for commit 9fdb62af92: and not just _one_ parent, but three! So it looks like the parent simplification is broken, and maybe gitk is unhappy for that reason.

The same is true of 7ed40918a38, btw, so yeah, I think that's it.

Junio, didn't we have some parent simplification patches recently?

			Linus