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From: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Ben Boeckel'" <ben.boeckel@kitware.com>
Cc: "'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [BUG] `git describe` doesn't traverse the graph in topological order
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:49:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <033201d9ed85$991c6af0$cb5540d0$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZQ3ggxA7KOysXrba@farprobe>

On Friday, September 22, 2023 2:44 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 14:12:31 -0400, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
>> What confuses me is how, in the other subthread, that adding sleep 1
>> to the construction of history should make any difference. My
>> understanding is that the path to the tag is invariant of the commit-date.
>
>Yes. It is explained that the commit date stored is only to 1 second granularity. Since
>the commits are stored in commit-date, an equal commit date ends up "twisting" the
>history and traversing some ancestors of commits before the commits themsevles.
>This loses the "seen" bit tracking that is done and ends up labeling way more
>commits as "not part of" ancestors. By sleeping for a second, the commit dates can
>be totally ordered reliably.

This is going to be awkward to resolve as time_t only resolves (portably) to 1 second intervals. I still would prefer the resolution to be path-based rather than time-based.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-22 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-12 19:36 [BUG] `git describe` doesn't traverse the graph in topological order Ben Boeckel
2023-09-22 15:39 ` Ben Boeckel
2023-09-22 16:13   ` rsbecker
2023-09-22 16:51     ` 'Ben Boeckel'
2023-09-22 17:14       ` rsbecker
2023-09-22 17:38         ` 'Ben Boeckel'
2023-09-22 17:51         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-22 18:12           ` rsbecker
2023-09-22 18:44             ` 'Ben Boeckel'
2023-09-22 18:49               ` rsbecker [this message]
2023-09-22 19:05                 ` 'Ben Boeckel'
2023-09-22 19:27                   ` rsbecker
2023-09-22 18:41           ` 'Ben Boeckel'
2023-09-23 12:32         ` 'Ben Boeckel'
2023-09-22 17:11     ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-22 17:35   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-22 17:43     ` 'Ben Boeckel'

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