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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> No. "--sparse" still removes the uninteresting parents of merges. It just 
> doesn't then make the linear history any denser.

Hmph, you are right.  add_parents_to_list() calls prune_fn
unconditionally while running limit_list().

Disabling that with yet another flag might be a possibility but
I suspect then it would not be much different from running
rev-list without path limiter and having the caller process the
result.