Re: [PATCH] Introduce get_octopus_merge_bases() in commit.c

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:41:06PM -0700, Junio C Hamano 
> <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually a quick glance at git-merge, a rather large case...esac after 
> > that "show-branch --merge-base" tells me that we do not really use the 
> > output from that operation and instead we check if we are fast-forward 
> > from all the other heads by iterating over them.  merge-octupos would 
> > accept it as the base but never looks at it.
> 
> I may be wrong but I think it would be still nice to pass a valid base 
> to the backend, even if _currently_ the only octopus implementation 
> ignores it.
> 
> Actually on "valid" I mean what my original get_octopus_merge_bases() 
> returned. :-)

IMO that is one of the advantages of making git-merge a builtin: you need 
not work around the lack of performance of shell scripts, but you can 
actually compute what you need to compute.

IOW I agree that we could give the proper list of merge bases to whatever 
octopus backend we use.  And since your original implementation is 
correct, if not super-optimal, I would like to stick to it.

Ciao,
Dscho