On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 01:31:29PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 09:47:57PM -0800, Taylor Blau wrote: > > In the previous commit, we introduced '--split=<no-merge|merge-all>', > > and alluded to the fact that '--split=merge-all' would be useful for > > callers who wish to always trigger a merge of an incremental chain. > > > > There is a problem with the above approach, which is that there is no > > way to specify to the commit-graph builtin that a caller only wants to > > include commits already in the graph. > > I'd like clarification on a detail here. Is it only about not adding > any new commits, or about keeping all existing commits as well? IOW, > do you want to: > > - include only commits already existing in the commit-graph, without > adding any new commits, but remove any commits that do not exist > in the object database anymore. This one, since the commit-graph machinery will drop any commits (no matter what input/source/mode you specify) that no longer exist in the object store. > or: > > - include _all_ commits already existing in the commit-graph, even > those that don't exist anymore in the object database, without > adding any new commits. Thanks, Taylor
