Re: [PATCH 4/3] Fold get_merge_bases_clean() into get_merge_bases()

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Rene Scharfe wrote:
>
> Due to popular request ;-), change get_merge_bases() to be able to
> clean up after itself if needed by adding a cleanup parameter.

Btw, I think the symmetric thing is still wrong.

Try this:

	git rev-list ^HEAD~1 HEAD...HEAD~2

which _should_ return just HEAD ("HEAD...HEAD~2" should basically expand 
into "HEAD HEAD~2 ^HEAD~2")

I haven't actually tested your patch, but I think it returns HEAD and 
HEAD~1.

The reason? You clear UNINTERESTING as part of clear_commit_marks(), so 
HEAD~1, which was marked thus by the user, gets cleared of its mark as 
part of the get_merge_bases() invocation.

I suspect the only way to fix that is to make "get_merge_bases()" not use 
UNINTERESTING at all, but instead just explicitly use something like

	(obj.flags & (LEFT | RIGHT)) == (LEFT | RIGHT)

instead.

			Linus