Thomas Rast <tr...@inf.ethz.ch> writes: > I hope I got that right. The order of commits is still entirely > determined by the choice of "any tentative source", but the algorithm > should now stream nicely once the generation numbers are known.
Thanks for an intereseting read. Even though generation numbers are not always a good subsitute for timestamps depending on the use (see the other message), the algorithm to compute "topo-order" can take advantage of the generation numbers when they are available, as you illustrated in your message. We may want to think about adding a new field to the commit object, with a fallback mechanism to an external "cache" that is generated on-demand. Once the mechanism is in place so that any caller of parse_commit() can depend on having a reliable .generation field in the commit object it receives from the function, we can start updating various traversal algorithms to take advantage of this new information. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
