Re: Following renames

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

No. "--sparse" still removes the uninteresting parents of merges. It just 
doesn't then make the linear history any denser.

Hmph, you are right.  add_parents_to_list() calls prune_fn
unconditionally while running limit_list().

Disabling that with yet another flag might be a possibility but
I suspect then it would not be much different from running
rev-list without path limiter and having the caller process the
result.