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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Add "--show-all" revision walker flag for debugging
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:12:42 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I'm starting to free up some resources to look at the interesting 
> problem with screwed-up commit dates confusing our commit walker into 
> thinking that some uninteresting commit isn't actually uninteresting due 
> to not traversing the uninteresting chain deep enough.

I was thinking the other night why I did not like the generation header.  
And I found out why: it is redundant information.

So why not have some local "cache" which maintains the generation numbers 
for the commits?  (Much like the "notes" cache I showed last year?)

Hmm?

Ciao,
Dscho