From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:01:55 GMT
Subject: Re: git-rev-list bug?
Message-ID: <tnx64mmpnq4.fsf@arm.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vslpqy4u7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
>> It however has a side effect -- uninteresting commits were never
>> parsed here, but now they get parsed.  I am not sure if there
>> are correctness implications...
>
> Actually there is.  If a merge with an uninteresting side branch
> was the only thing that brought changes to paths we are
> interested in, we do not want TREE_SAME logic to remove other
> parents (i.e. the branches we are interested in) from the merge
> commit.  
>
> So we would need a combination of both, something like this?

I can confirm that it "stg patches" works fine with this patch for
git-rev-list.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin