Re: [PATCH 3/3] pack-bitmap.c: use commit boundary during bitmap traversal

Taylor Blau [off-list ref] writes:

Hmm. This is from code that Peff and I wrote together a long time ago.
My recollection is that we only care about the UNINTERESTING commits
between the tips and boundary (as you described it), but no further, and
that we could discover that set during limit_list() alone.

But maybe not? I honestly cannot remember. Perhaps Peff does?

Yes, that matches my understanding.

By the time you finish limit_list(), from the "revision traversal"
point of view, you have done all the hard work already, sifting
commits between the ones that are and are not interesting.  I am
surprised that whatever you learn only after reaching that point is
still helpful to optimize some operations.