Re: Question about the revision walking API

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On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 02:24:58AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I would like to know if the revision walking API works as one would
> > expect with a calling sequence like the following:
> >
> > - init_revisions
> > - add_pending_object/setup_revisions
> > - prepare_revision_walk
> > - get_revision (repeated)
> > - reset_revision_walk (I guess)
> 
> Around here you would need to clear flag bits left on the objects by
> your previous traversal.  After "git log A..B", commits in that
> range would have various combinations of SEEN, ADDED and SHOWN

afaics, that's what reset_revision_walk does.

> flags, and also some commits reachable from A would be marked as
> UNINTERESTING.

Do you mean the ancestry of A? That wouldn't matter in my case.

> You do not want these to interfere with your next
> traversal which may not have anything to do with what you computed
> with the previous round.

Okay, so aiui, doing a revision walk doesn't impact anything other
than the object flags, so I can safely use add_pending_object to add
to what I already had in the rev_info?

Cheers,

Mike
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