Thread (8 messages) flat view 8 messages, 6 authors, 2018-05-22

Re: commit-graph: change in "best" merge-base when ambiguous

From: Jacob Keller <hidden>
Date: 2018-05-21 22:26:22

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:
Yes, I think this is clearly a case where all of the single merge-bases
we could show are equally good. And I don't think we should promise to
show a particular one, but I _do_ think it's friendly for us to have
deterministic tie-breakers (we certainly don't now).

-Peff
Right. I think we should probably have some mechanism that will allow
us to always give the same answer, even if it's somewhat arbitrary.

Regards,
Jake
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