On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 01:45:47PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Kacper Kornet <drae...@pld-linux.org> writes:
> > Logic in still_interesting function allows to stop the commits > > traversing if the oldest processed commit is not older then the > > youngest commit on the list to process and the list contains only > > commits marked as not interesting ones. It can be premature when dealing > > with a set of coequal commits. For example git rev-list A^! --not B > > provides wrong answer if all commits in the range A..B had the same > > commit time and there are more then 7 of them. > > To fix this problem the relevant part of the logic in still_interesting > > is changed to: the walk can be stopped if the oldest processed commit is > > younger then the youngest commit on the list to processed. > Is the made-up test case to freeze the clock even interesting? The > slop logic is merely a heuristic to compensate for effects caused by > skewed or non-monototic clocks, so in a different repository you may > even need to fuzz the timestamp comparison further > if (date - 10 < src->item->date) > or something silly like that. I don't think it is a made-up test case. For example it is easy to get a number of coequal commits by using git rebase -i. So I argue that git should treat correctly ranges of such commits. -- Kacper Kornet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
