Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add a 'source' decorator for commits

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:46:43PM +0000, Jeff King wrote:

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:11:16PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

quoted

believe the proper way to do that is to help git-log knowing which are
the short (topic) branches, and to crawl incrementally using a
date-based hack. This would basically work a bit like this. Let's
imaging you want to crawl "next" in git and know which topics from pu
are in it. You would say e.g.:

Hmm. Why a date-based hack to see what's on the topic branch? Why not
just give an option to walk the graph twice,

it serves the purpose to not walk the graph twice actually, but indeed
twice is not _that_ bad.
 

giving name-rev style annotations, and just let it be slow. People
will mostly look at it by specifying just their topic branches anyway.
IOW:

  git log ^origin/master my/topic1 my/topic2 my/topic3

and by virtue of the fact that you are vastly limiting the size of the
tree, it won't actually end up too slow. So you haven't said so much
"these are my topic branches" as "I am just not interested in things
that are already upstream."

Well, I was just thinking quickly during jetlag-induced insomnia. I
don't really care about the issue that much actually.
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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