Re: [PATCH] log --children

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 04.10.2011 22:21:
> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>>> @@ -414,6 +422,8 @@ void show_log(struct rev_info *opt)
>>>  		fputs(find_unique_abbrev(commit->object.sha1, abbrev_commit), stdout);
>>>  		if (opt->print_parents)
>>>  			show_parents(commit, abbrev_commit);
>>> +		if (opt->children.name)
>>> +			show_children(opt, commit, abbrev_commit);
>>
>> That means that "log --children --parents" will print out the parents'
>> sha1s, then the children's. Is that a good default format, or should we
>> somehow deal with the case when both are specified?
> 
> I think these two options are muturally exclusive, not because of the
> "mixed output getting confusing" reasons but because of traversal reasons.
> IIRC, when parent rewriting is in effect, you cannot just say "a commit
> that has these commits on its parents list is a child of these commits",
> as you have to orphan and adopt it as a child of ancestor commits, which
> the code introduced in f35f5603 does not do.
> 

I didn't think --parents would switch on rewriting, but I guess all is good:

git rev-list -5  --parents --children origin/next
fatal: cannot combine --parents and --children

Should be the same for log.

Michael