Re: [Q] Abbreviated history graph?

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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I'll post a simple series of four commits in a moment.

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Side note: it's certainly possible that we could improve on this. Right 
now, "--simplify-namespace" will totally override any path simplification, 
so you can't get a combination of pathnames _and_ naming commits. I don't 
know exactly what the rules should be, but I could imagine that we could 
do something like:

 - if no pathnames are given, work the way the current patch-series works.

 - if path-names are given, make rev_compare_tree() truen 
   REV_TREE_DIFFERENT if a name decoration _or_ a tree difference exists.

Anyway, that's a fairly trivial extension to the idea, and doesn't really 
matter for the basic code. It can easily be left for later.

Thanks.

Including this (and the --source one), the series looks reasonable.