From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v3-wip] revision traversal: show full history with merge simplification Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:50:28 -0700 Message-ID: <7vhca5tbqz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <8502DF7C-5303-49E8-8C67-F837343E2F0C@gmail.com> <46a038f90807282015m7ce3da10h71dfee221c960332@mail.gmail.com> <7vej5b3ozz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vhca6zcuy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabfxyacx.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabfxv3px.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Roman Zippel , Martin Langhoff , Tim Harper , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 01 09:51:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KOpQT-0007C4-K3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:51:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753909AbYHAHus (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 03:50:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753596AbYHAHus (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 03:50:48 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:46913 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753822AbYHAHur (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 03:50:47 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A7E4464B; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 03:50:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 867454464A; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 03:50:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:48:18 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8CD6BCC6-5F9E-11DD-A997-CE28B26B55AE-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> It was even worse than that. >> >> The output from v3 is incorrect > > Ok. I'm really not surprised. Incrementally is really hard. I'm reminded > of all the problems we had with just the "trivial" issue of just knowing > when to consider something uninteresting or not, that ended up depending > on commit timestamps etc, and had problems with people having their clocks > set incorrectly. > > Doing the ops once you have the full DAG is usually _trivial_ by > comparison. Surely. I wasn't productive tonight anyway, and I'll give up for now and keep the post-processing version in 'pu', perhaps queued in 'next' during the 1.6.0-rc period. Perhaps somebody cleverer than me will feel itchy enough to make an incremental version someday ;-)