From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:16:37 GMT
Subject: Re: New features in gitk
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711021114390.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711020828440.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>



On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The thing is, I'm pretty sure I can feed you commits really quickly if I 
> don't sort them, and if I don't do the full and careful "oops, this commit 
> was reachable from a commit that was marked uninteresting", but while the 
> fast-and-stupid approach will work well enough for most things, it will 
> occasionally get the wrong answer.

Ok, I have a trial patch that doesn't do the replay yet, but at least 
notices when it outputs a parent that has already been shown.

In the whole git archive, it happens three times.

In the kernel archive, it happens twelve times.

I'll try to get it into some kind of usable shape, and send out 
experimental patches for people to play with.

		Linus