On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:14:13AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> writes: > > > First, revision.c doesn't come with a function to clear a struct > > rev_info.... > > Then, revision.c kind of does nasty things to commit objects... > > Yeah, these two stem from the "run once and let exit() clean things > up" design the oldest part of the system shares. Regarding the > latter, i.e. parent rewriting, I recall that there is a codepath > that saves the original true parents away in a second field when we > know we would want to show it (and avoid the overhead of copying > when we do not have to), so you should be able to extend it to keep > the original parent list.
I guess you're refering to save_parents/get_saved_parents? Would it make sense for things to be reversed, as in, make revision.c keep the simplified parents separately, and traverse through that? Mike
