Re: [REPLACEMENT PATCH 2/2] Add "--early-output" log flag for interactive GUI use

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Nov 4, 2007, 18:11 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711041004220.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711032234030.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> > 
> > How hard would it be to put the total number of commits on that "Final
> > output" line?  That would be useful for me.
> 
> Not hard. I think we basically have it anyway.

Actually, I take that back.

It's hard. Not because we don't have the commits, but because while we do the top-level shape pruning in the eearly stages, we do *not* do the final path-limiting until we actually output the commits.

Which actually makes "--early-output" right now do some rather odd things when you use a path limiter: we don't do the "rewrite_parents()" thing until later, so the early output will have done the first level of history simplification, but it won't have made history *dense* yet.

I'm looking at it now, I'll have to think about this a bit more. It might be trivial to fix, but this thing has real potential for being subtle.

			Linus