Re: Default history simplification

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:30:43PM -0600, Tommy Wang wrote:

I'm working on a small perl script that needs to reproduce the results
of the default git history simplification used by log & rev-list when
a list of paths is given.  It is important that I reproduce its
results exactly.  I would love to simply use the rev-list built-in to
do my work for me; but I fear that I may have much too many path
limiters than the linux command-line can handle (which if I'm correct,
can only take so many arguments).

FYI, Junio just posted a patch for handling pathspec limiting over
--stdin, which would solve this problem for you.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133333

-Peff