Re: gitk problems: can't unset "idinlist(...)"

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> It seems to depend on the path limiter.
>
> With "arch/i386", I get the 7ed409 one, with "arch/i386 arch/x86_64" I get 
> a complaint about 57d1c91fa. In neither case do I see the reason.
>
> But I think I found a clue. One thing special about that 57d1c91fa is that 
> when you do
>
> 	git log --topo-order --parents --pretty=one arch/i386/ arch/x86_64/
>
> and search for it, it first shows up as a parent for commit 9fdb62af92: 
> and not just _one_ parent, but three! So it looks like the parent 
> simplification is broken, and maybe gitk is unhappy for that reason.

Yeah, I think if you limit the range at the bottom
(e.g. v2.6.21..)  the problem disappears.

> The same is true of 7ed40918a38, btw, so yeah, I think that's it.
>
> Junio, didn't we have some parent simplification patches recently?

We had a patch to remove duplicated parent or something, I
think.