Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
It however has a side effect -- uninteresting commits were never
parsed here, but now they get parsed. I am not sure if there
are correctness implications...
Actually there is. If a merge with an uninteresting side branch
was the only thing that brought changes to paths we are
interested in, we do not want TREE_SAME logic to remove other
parents (i.e. the branches we are interested in) from the merge
commit.
So we would need a combination of both, something like this?
---
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 713f27e..c8d93ff 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ static int same_tree_as_empty(struct tre
static void try_to_simplify_commit(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit)
{
struct commit_list **pp, *parent;
+ int tree_changed = 0;
if (!commit->tree)
return;@@ -296,14 +297,19 @@ static void try_to_simplify_commit(struc
while ((parent = *pp) != NULL) {
struct commit *p = parent->item;
- if (p->object.flags & UNINTERESTING) {
- pp = &parent->next;
- continue;
- }
-
parse_commit(p);
switch (compare_tree(p->tree, commit->tree)) {
case TREE_SAME:
+ if (p->object.flags & UNINTERESTING) {
+ /* Even if a merge with an uninteresting
+ * side branch brought the entire change
+ * we are interested in, we do not want
+ * to lose the other branches of this
+ * merge, so we just keep going.
+ */
+ pp = &parent->next;
+ continue;
+ }
parent->next = NULL;
commit->parents = parent;
return;@@ -315,12 +321,14 @@ static void try_to_simplify_commit(struc
}
/* fallthrough */
case TREE_DIFFERENT:
+ tree_changed = 1;
pp = &parent->next;
continue;
}
die("bad tree compare for commit %s", sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1));
}
- commit->object.flags |= TREECHANGE;
+ if (tree_changed)
+ commit->object.flags |= TREECHANGE;
}
static void add_parents_to_list(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit, struct commit_list **list)