Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > [1] The thing that made me think about this was making a version of > paint_down_to_common that could keep a separate color for each > source, rather than only PARENT1 and PARENT2. That would let us do > the "--contains" traversal in a breadth-first way, but calculate the > answer simultaneously for all sources (i.e., avoid the depth-first > "go to roots" problem that the current "tag --contains" has if you > do not use timestamp cutoffs). Yes, show-branch operates independently of rev-list machinery, hence can use full set of bits, but the full set of bits in a word is not always sufficient and it can be helped greatly with such an unbound set of bits machinery. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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