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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, John Fultz <jfultz@wolfram.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: resolve $commit^{tree} in no-index case
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:34:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160120013436.GA24541@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160120012253.GD16090@google.com>

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 05:22:53PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> > I'm actually a little iffy on it because it switches to "diff-tree" from
> > a raw-sha1 comparison. For a well-formed repo, that shouldn't matter.
> > But what if you had a commit that was replacing a malformed tree object,
> > but not otherwise changing the diff?  We might drop it as "empty", even
> > though you'd prefer to keep it.
> 
> Mph.  We could get the best of both worlds by introducing a "git
> rev-parse --compare <a> <b>" that compares object ids.  Actually...
> 
> How about something like this?

Thanks. I had in my head that we could do something like that, but
hadn't quite worked it out. I think what you wrote works.

If you want to wrap it up into a patch, I'd be OK with it, but note that
it still falls afoul of changing $tree in a user-visible way (so you
should note that in the commit message).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-20  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-19 20:48 git filter-branch not removing commits when it should in 2.7.0 John Fultz
2016-01-19 21:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-19 21:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-19 21:37     ` Jeff King
2016-01-19 21:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-19 21:51         ` [PATCH] filter-branch: resolve $commit^{tree} in no-index case Jeff King
2016-01-19 21:59           ` Jeff King
2016-01-19 22:07             ` Jeff King
2016-01-19 22:23               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-19 22:28             ` Jeff King
2016-01-19 22:48               ` Jeff King
2016-01-20  1:22               ` Jonathan Nieder
2016-01-20  1:34                 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-01-20  1:51                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-20  2:00                     ` Jeff King
2016-01-20  2:43                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-20  3:23                         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-20  4:14                           ` Jeff King
2016-01-20  0:47           ` Jonathan Nieder

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