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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Brian Foster <brian.foster@innova-card.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Q] Abbreviated history graph?
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:45:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vzlkfriav.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811031211180.3419@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:15:05 -0800 (PST)")

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

> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> I'll post a simple series of four commits in a moment.
> ...
> Side note: it's certainly possible that we could improve on this. Right 
> now, "--simplify-namespace" will totally override any path simplification, 
> so you can't get a combination of pathnames _and_ naming commits. I don't 
> know exactly what the rules should be, but I could imagine that we could 
> do something like:
>
>  - if no pathnames are given, work the way the current patch-series works.
>
>  - if path-names are given, make rev_compare_tree() truen 
>    REV_TREE_DIFFERENT if a name decoration _or_ a tree difference exists.
>
> Anyway, that's a fairly trivial extension to the idea, and doesn't really 
> matter for the basic code. It can easily be left for later.

Thanks.

Including this (and the --source one), the series looks reasonable.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-04  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-03 13:39 [Q] Abbreviated history graph? Brian Foster
2008-11-03 14:20 ` Santi Béjar
2008-11-03 14:55   ` Santi Béjar
2008-11-03 15:46   ` Brian Foster
2008-11-03 16:08     ` Santi Béjar
2008-11-03 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-03 19:33   ` [PATCH 1/4] Add a 'source' decorator for commits Linus Torvalds
2008-11-03 19:35     ` [PATCH 2/4] revision: make tree comparison functions take commits rather than trees Linus Torvalds
2008-11-03 19:39       ` [PATCH 3/4] Make '--decorate' set an explicit 'show_decorations' flag Linus Torvalds
2008-11-03 19:43         ` [PATCH 4/4] Add support for 'namespace' history simplification Linus Torvalds
2008-11-03 21:45           ` Santi Béjar
2008-11-03 22:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-03 22:34               ` Santi Béjar
2008-11-03 22:28           ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-11-04 21:33           ` Clemens Buchacher
2008-11-03 20:15   ` [Q] Abbreviated history graph? Linus Torvalds
2008-11-03 20:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-04  8:45     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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