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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: merge-base: fully contaminate the well.
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:04:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7viruzu3du.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511102125510.4627@g5.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:36:03 -0800 (PST)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> So the cheap test is to just say
>
> 	/* Do we have multiple results? */
> 	if (result->next)
> 		contaminate_well(result);
>
> no?

Correct.  And this is only for really artificial corner case so
we should try to avoid for normal cases as much as possible,
cheaply.

> Btw, I don't think your contamination logic is necessarily complete. We 
> may not even have parsed some of the commits that end up being on that 
> strange corner case.

I haven't tried walking any other test cases, but wouldn't that
be arguing that the our assumption that the current merge-base
is at least complete if not optimum?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-11  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-07 16:48 Comments on recursive merge Linus Torvalds
2005-11-07 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-07 23:19   ` [PATCH] merge-recursive: Only print relevant rename messages Fredrik Kuivinen
2005-11-07 23:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 10:36       ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2005-11-07 22:58 ` Comments on recursive merge Fredrik Kuivinen
2005-11-08  0:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-08  0:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-08  0:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-08 11:58       ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-08 21:02         ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2005-11-08 21:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-08 21:52           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-08 22:36             ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2005-11-08 23:05               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-08 23:18                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-09  0:18                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-09  6:10                     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09  0:32                 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-09  0:51                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-09  0:59                     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09  1:22                       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-09  1:42                         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 10:20                           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 14:59                             ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-09 16:30                             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-09 20:13                               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 21:58                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-09 22:56                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 23:34                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-11  2:58                                   ` merge-base: fully contaminate the well Junio C Hamano
2005-11-11  5:36                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-11  6:04                                       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-11-11 16:18                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-11  8:28                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-08 23:04           ` Comments on recursive merge Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-08 16:21       ` [RFC/PATCH] Make git-recursive the default strategy for git-pull Junio C Hamano
2005-11-11 22:25       ` Comments on recursive merge Junio C Hamano
2005-11-11 22:53         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-12  0:42           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-12  6:35         ` Ryan Anderson
2005-11-12  7:44           ` [PATCH] GIT commit statistics Junio C Hamano
2005-11-12 12:19             ` Martin Langhoff
2005-11-12 12:53               ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-15 10:04                 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-15 15:29                   ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-12 19:04               ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-13 10:59               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-13 20:42                 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-11-14  3:33                   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14  4:01                     ` Martin Langhoff
2005-11-14  6:06                       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14  8:51                         ` Martin Langhoff
2005-11-14  9:25                           ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-14 21:25                             ` Martin Langhoff
2005-11-14  9:27                           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15  3:00                           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-13 11:11               ` Petr Baudis

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