# [PATCH 0/3] Avoid forking a process when checking merge bases

1 messages from 2009-05-17 to 2009-05-17. Participants: Christian Couder.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19391

## Christian Couder, 2009-05-17 16:35

Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Avoid forking a process when checking merge bases
Message-ID: <200905171835.41213.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200905171835.41213.chriscool%40tuxfamily.org

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The goal of this patch series is to check if good revisions are
ancestor of the bad revision without forking a process to launch
"git rev-list $good ^$bad".

To do that it introduces an "unparse_commit" function that may be
usefull in other cases, for example see:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/114916

Ps: sorry to send this cover letter late because of a bug in the
script I used to send the series.

  bisect: rework some rev related functions to make them more reusable
  commit: add function to unparse a commit and its parents
  bisect: check ancestors without forking a "git rev-list" process

 bisect.c                    |   79 
+++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 commit.c                    |   20 +++++++++++
 commit.h                    |    2 +
 t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh |   13 +------
 4 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

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