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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add support for 'namespace' history simplification
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:25:46 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Add support for 'namespace' history simplification
>
> Maybe this is mis-named, but what it does is to simplify history not by
> the contents of the tree, but whether a commit has been named (ie it's
> referred to by some branch or tag) or not.

Maybe --simplify-refs, or --simplify-overview.

>
> This makes it possible to see the relationship between different named
> commits, without actually seeing any of the details.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>
> This is the actual real meat of the logic, and it's really trivial. The
> actual code is really just a simple
>
>    if (simplify-by-namespace)
>        return lookup_decoration(..) ? REV_TREE_DIFFERENT : REV_TREE_SAME;

I tried it once, but I had problems simplifying the merges, and it is trivial...

Not that it matters a lot, but if you try it on master you get some
extra merges without a ref like:

373a273 (Merge git-gui 0.11.0, 2008-08-17)
f44bc33 (Sync with 1.5.6.5, 2008-08-06)

Thanks,
Santi