From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 16:47:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Corrupt name-rev output
Message-ID: <xmqqzgkb21c3.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <340c8810-d912-7b18-d46e-a9d43f20216a@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> Subject: [PATCH] Revert "name-rev: release unused name strings"
>
> This reverts commit 2d53975488df195e1431c3f90bfb5b60018d5bf6.
>
> 3656f84278 (name-rev: prefer shorter names over following merges,
> 2021-12-04) broke the assumption of 2d53975488 (name-rev: release unused
> name strings, 2020-02-04) that a better name for a child is a better
> name for all of its ancestors as well, because it added a penalty for
> generation > 0.  This leads to strings being free(3)'d that are still
> needed.

Nicely described.

Thanks.