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Re: Bizarre missing changes (git bug?)

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 27, 2008, 23:18 UTC
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 
> Why are you dismissing what I wrote without even giving it a second 
> thought? I didn't bother with the initial example, because it's so 
> simple, that it's no real challenge.

Did you try it? It really shouldn't be any simpler than anything else. And I dismissed what you wrote because the example you _did_ state was about something else entirely (ie apparently some giggle bug that simplifies things incorrectly).

> What did I do wrong that you rebuff me based on this secondary problem 
> (which I'm quite aware of, because it was me who mentioned in first place) 
> and giving the primary problem (which is the missing history) no 
> attention?

It's not missing history. It's all there in --full-history. The default is to give a reasonable simplification, and I told you what the simplification was, and it's perfectly conceptually fine - AND IT IS MUCH MORE EFFICIENT than the alternatives.

So I'm not seeing your point what-so-ever. 
My point is:
 - with full-history, you have it all, but it's useless in practice
 - without full-history, it's useful in practice
You never gave any examples otherwise.
			Linus
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Message 10 of 58 in “Bizarre missing changes (git bug?)”
  1. Tim HarperJul 21, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsJul 21, 2008
  3. Tim HarperJul 21, 2008
  4. Tim HarperJul 21, 2008
  5. Roman ZippelJul 26, 2008
  6. Linus TorvaldsJul 26, 2008
  7. Roman ZippelJul 27, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 27, 2008
  9. Roman ZippelJul 27, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 27, 2008
  11. Roman ZippelJul 28, 2008
  12. Linus TorvaldsJul 28, 2008
  13. Linus TorvaldsJul 28, 2008
  14. Roman ZippelJul 29, 2008
  15. Martin LanghoffJul 29, 2008
  16. Roman ZippelJul 30, 2008
  17. Martin LanghoffJul 30, 2008
  18. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2008
  19. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2008
  22. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  23. revision traversal: show full history with merge simplificationJunio C Hamano, Jul 31, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2008
  25. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  26. revision traversal: show full history with merge simplificationJunio C Hamano, Jul 31, 2008
  27. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2008
  29. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2008
  30. Linus TorvaldsAug 1, 2008
  31. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2008
  32. Jakub NarebskiJul 30, 2008
  33. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2008
  34. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2008
  35. Roman ZippelJul 29, 2008
  36. David KastrupJul 29, 2008
  37. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2008
  38. Roman ZippelJul 30, 2008
  39. Kevin BallardJul 30, 2008
  40. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2008
  41. Jeff KingJul 29, 2008
  42. Roman ZippelJul 29, 2008
  43. Olivier GalibertJul 29, 2008
  44. Jeff KingJul 29, 2008
  45. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2008
  46. Roman ZippelJul 30, 2008
  47. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2008
  48. Jeff KingJul 30, 2008
  49. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2008
  50. Roman ZippelJul 30, 2008
  51. Kevin BallardJul 30, 2008
  52. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2008
  53. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2008
  54. Jeff KingJul 30, 2008
  55. Martin LanghoffJul 27, 2008
  56. Roman ZippelJul 28, 2008
  57. Alex RiesenJul 21, 2008
  58. Linus TorvaldsJul 21, 2008

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