Subject: Re: git-rev-list bug?

From: Catalin Marinas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:01:55 +0000

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> It however has a side effect -- uninteresting commits were never
>> parsed here, but now they get parsed.  I am not sure if there
>> are correctness implications...
>
> Actually there is.  If a merge with an uninteresting side branch
> was the only thing that brought changes to paths we are
> interested in, we do not want TREE_SAME logic to remove other
> parents (i.e. the branches we are interested in) from the merge
> commit.  
>
> So we would need a combination of both, something like this?

I can confirm that it "stg patches" works fine with this patch for
git-rev-list.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin