Re: DEVEL: Help with feature implementation

On 1/18/2021 2:31 PM, Aiyee Bee wrote:

Hi Antonio and Derrick!

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I think what you really want is --full-history --simplify-merges [1]. This
will show the merges that "fork" the history into parallel tracks where
at least two of them contain interesting commits.

It doesn't look like the implementation of --simplify-merges helps much
here. That makes its decision on basis of the parents of the commit, which is
simple to do as it's information attached freely to each commit. I think the
problem here would be figuring out, given any commit, how many of its children
are "relevant" commits.

You should definitely give this a try instead of assuming things about the
implementation. The algorithm uses a lot of "simplifying" that makes it look
like the decision is a local one. However, I assure you that is not the case.

Please assemble a test case that demonstrates the behavior you want and how
that is different from what is present in --simplify-merges.

-Stolee