From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: detecting cycles in Git's commit graph
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:27:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090430192714.GT23604@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090430191857.GA55192@ginosko.grantstreet.com>
Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org> wrote:
> Are there any tools for detecting cycles in the commit graph which
> have been caused by grafts? I thought 'git fsck' might do it, but it
> doesn't seem to.
Nope. Cycles don't happen in a DAG. So nobody has created tools
for it. :-)
Yes, grafts are impure and can be used to cause a cycle, which is
one reason among many we don't encourage them being used.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-30 19:27 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-30 19:18 detecting cycles in Git's commit graph Michael Hendricks
2009-04-30 19:27 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-05-03 11:36 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
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