Linus Torvalds schrieb: > > On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Rene Scharfe wrote: >> Due to popular request ;-), change get_merge_bases() to be able to >> clean up after itself if needed by adding a cleanup parameter. > > Btw, I think the symmetric thing is still wrong. > > Try this: > > git rev-list ^HEAD~1 HEAD...HEAD~2 > > which _should_ return just HEAD ("HEAD...HEAD~2" should basically expand > into "HEAD HEAD~2 ^HEAD~2") > > I haven't actually tested your patch, but I think it returns HEAD and > HEAD~1. > > The reason? You clear UNINTERESTING as part of clear_commit_marks(), so > HEAD~1, which was marked thus by the user, gets cleared of its mark as > part of the get_merge_bases() invocation. > > I suspect the only way to fix that is to make "get_merge_bases()" not use > UNINTERESTING at all, but instead just explicitly use something like No and yes. Patch 1 in the 3+1 series changes the flags used in commit.c to not conflict with the ones in revision.h[*]. So we have two different UNINTERESTINGs, and get_merge_bases() doesn't mess up the show/no-show markings. René [*] That fix was the one which reportedly made Dscho break a table. Sorry for that by the way. :-P - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html