From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:12:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Add "--show-all" revision walker flag for debugging
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802100110450.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802091341210.2896@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I'm starting to free up some resources to look at the interesting 
> problem with screwed-up commit dates confusing our commit walker into 
> thinking that some uninteresting commit isn't actually uninteresting due 
> to not traversing the uninteresting chain deep enough.

I was thinking the other night why I did not like the generation header.  
And I found out why: it is redundant information.

So why not have some local "cache" which maintains the generation numbers 
for the commits?  (Much like the "notes" cache I showed last year?)

Hmm?

Ciao,
Dscho