From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: fix --reverse interaction with --parents Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:51:10 -0700 Message-ID: <7vtzd1d969.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <48AD9786.80707@viscovery.net> <1220037518-11219-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Sixt To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 31 08:00:37 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 1KZfzI-000111-F1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:00:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751011AbYHaFvU (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:51:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751027AbYHaFvU (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:51:20 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:58298 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750854AbYHaFvU (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:51:20 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0506758354; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:51:19 -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 5855358352; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:51:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1220037518-11219-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch> (Thomas Rast's message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:18:38 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: D52B674E-7720-11DD-8F81-9EE598D589B0-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thomas Rast writes: > The bad news: I got as far as understanding that the repeated > simplification must be at fault, but gave up on trying to see exactly > _which step_ breaks the output. Obviously parent rewriting is the > prime suspect. Yeah, I noticed that running simplify_commit() (hence rewrite_parents()) more than once on the same commit seems to do "unexpected" things, during my (hitherto unsuccessful) attempt to to make the --simplify-merges machinery incremental.