By the way, the issue does not have anything to do with merges.
This is the absolute minimum (and reliable) reproduction recipe.
You need four commits. If you remove "commit three &&", the
traversal will contaminate "one".
---
t/t6009-rev-list-parent.sh | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t6009-rev-list-parent.sh b/t/t6009-rev-list-parent.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1da5dbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t6009-rev-list-parent.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='properly cull all ancestors'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+commit () {
+ test_tick &&
+ echo $1 >file &&
+ git commit -a -m $1 &&
+ git tag $1
+}
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+
+ touch file &&
+ git add file &&
+
+ commit one &&
+
+ test_tick=$(($test_tick - 2400))
+
+ commit two &&
+ commit three &&
+ commit four &&
+
+ git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'one is ancestor of others and should not be shown' '
+
+ git rev-list one --not four >result &&
+ >expect &&
+ diff -u expect result
+
+'
+
+test_done
-
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