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From: Peter Colberg <pcolberg@redhat.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kristofer Karlsson <krka@spotify.com>
Subject: Git 2.55.0 breaks revision path filtering with --no-walk
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:48:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alfWF9cBPESuLBgS@earendel> (raw)

Hi,

Since commit dd4bc01c0a8f ("revision: use priority queue for
non-limited streaming walks") in Git 2.55.0, git rev-list
--no-walk no longer considers optional <path>... arguments.

https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.2127.git.1779897003.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/

The following example lists all commits between two Linux kernel
releases that modify paths within a given directory and further
modified paths outside of that directory, too.

With Git 2.54.0, the second rev-list correctly filters by paths:

% git rev-list --topo-order v7.0..v7.1 -- drivers/gpu/drm/ | wc -l
2026
% git rev-list --topo-order v7.0..v7.1 -- drivers/gpu/drm/ | git rev-list --stdin --no-walk=unsorted -- ':!drivers/gpu/drm/' | wc -l
146

With Git 2.55.0, the second rev-list passes through all commits:

% git rev-list --topo-order v7.0..v7.1 -- drivers/gpu/drm/ | wc -l
2026
% git rev-list --topo-order v7.0..v7.1 -- drivers/gpu/drm/ | git rev-list --stdin --no-walk=unsorted -- ':!drivers/gpu/drm/' | wc -l
2026

Reverting commit dd4bc01c0a8f ("revision: use priority queue for
non-limited streaming walks") on top of Git 2.55.0 restores the
previous behaviour. Specifically, the following hunk that no longer
invokes process_parents() in the no_walk case causes the regression.

@@ -4390,12 +4394,13 @@ static struct commit *get_revision_1(struct rev_info *revs)
 			break;
 		case REV_WALK_STREAMING:
 			if (process_parents(revs, commit,
-					    &revs->commits, NULL) < 0) {
+					    &revs->commit_queue) < 0) {
 				if (!revs->ignore_missing_links)
 					die("Failed to traverse parents of commit %s",
 					    oid_to_hex(&commit->object.oid));
 			}
 			break;
+		case REV_WALK_NO_WALK:
 		case REV_WALK_LIMITED:
 			break;
 		}

Is the behaviour in Git 2.55.0 intentional, i.e., was --no-walk never
intended to support path filtering, or is this indeed a regression?

Thanks,
Peter


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-15 18:49 UTC|newest]

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