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From: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	nanako3@bluebottle.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] revision.c: really honor --first-parent
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:54:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c5c35580805140354s62301343n62f8319b1853bfbd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080514103454.GA28610@cuci.nl>

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl> wrote:
>  So, I'd say, since the current code does not and cannot work reliably
>  for anyone specifically using --first-parent (with every merge
>  encountered, the probability of correctness is multiplied by 0.5 at
>  most/least), you are going to do them a favour anyway by fixing the code,
>  then why not simplify the convolution and make the code rock-steady (and
>  implement my patch)?

The current 'next' branch in git.git contains your patch with my fixup
on top and I believe this fixes _both_ the original issue with
first-parent (thanks to your patch) and the issue Nanako discovered
(thanks to my patch). Am I missing something?

-- 
larsh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-14 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-11  7:03 "git log --first-parent" shows parents that are not first しらいしななこ
2008-05-11 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-11 23:14   ` [PATCH] revision.c: really honor --first-parent Lars Hjemli
2008-05-12 15:12     ` [PATCH v2] " Lars Hjemli
2008-05-13 20:15       ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-05-13 20:43         ` Lars Hjemli
2008-05-13 22:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-14 10:34             ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-05-14 10:54               ` Lars Hjemli [this message]
2008-05-14 11:10                 ` Stephen R. van den Berg

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