Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

Yeah, I actually looked at a few examples, so I knew what it was basically 
trying to do, and then I ignored it as not interesting to the exercise, 
which was to abuse the new revision listing library in interesting ways by 
calling it multiple times.

Abuse is exactly the word.  The reason it is an abuse is exactly
why you said "... but to fix it you'd have to actualyl walk the
parent list yourself, rather than letting get_revision do it all
for you."  Which relates to the fact that object.c layer is not
designed to be used multiple times...

Maybe we want to make object.c layer reusable first?