From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:15:05 GMT Subject: Re: [Q] Abbreviated history graph? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'll post a simple series of four commits in a moment. They're all > trivial, and the first three are just setting stuff up (in fact, the very > first one is a commit I've already posted, and it's technically totally > unrelated, but since it touches the same area as one of the other ones, > I'm too lazy to try to separate it out). Side note: it's certainly possible that we could improve on this. Right now, "--simplify-namespace" will totally override any path simplification, so you can't get a combination of pathnames _and_ naming commits. I don't know exactly what the rules should be, but I could imagine that we could do something like: - if no pathnames are given, work the way the current patch-series works. - if path-names are given, make rev_compare_tree() truen REV_TREE_DIFFERENT if a name decoration _or_ a tree difference exists. Anyway, that's a fairly trivial extension to the idea, and doesn't really matter for the basic code. It can easily be left for later. Linus