From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: breakage in revision traversal with pathspec
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:21:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmwnjrwov.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130911182444.GD4326@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:24:44 -0700")
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> I think you're right that dropping the "don't follow off-graph
> treesame parents" rule would be a sensible change. The usual point of
> the "follow the treesame parent" rule is to avoid drawing undue
> attention to merges of ancient history where some of the parents are
> side-branches with an old version of the files being tracked and did
> not actually change those files. That rationale applies just as much
> for a merge on top of an UNINTERESTING rev as any other merge.
Sounds sensible. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-11 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-10 17:19 breakage in revision traversal with pathspec Junio C Hamano
2013-09-10 21:27 ` Kevin Bracey
2013-09-10 22:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-11 17:49 ` Kevin Bracey
2013-09-11 18:24 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-09-11 19:21 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-09-11 19:39 ` Kevin Bracey
2013-09-11 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-19 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-20 3:35 ` Jeff King
2013-09-20 4:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-20 5:11 ` Jeff King
2013-09-20 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-25 9:12 ` Jeff King
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