From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] name-rev: test showing failure with non-monotonic commit dates
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 14:05:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xoaHtHMxE_RVBRyhOqVfuP_1s+2NGpGDo_eKfb25_ty7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1r03zl9z.fsf@gitster.g>
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 4:51 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> In "name-rev [--tags] C", we look for a tag to use in describing the
> given commit C as an ancestry path starting at the tag T (e.g. T~4,
> T~2^2). There can be multiple such tags (e.g. it is likely that a
> commit that is v1.0~2 is also reachable from tag v2.0, even though
> it would require more hops). We try to and find a tag that gives
> the "simplest" path. For that purpose, it is no use to consider any
> tag that is not a descendant of the given commit, because doing an
> ancestry traversal starting from such a tag will never reach the
> commit. In a world where everybody's clock is in sync, if commit
> was made at time X, any tag that was made before time X will not be
> a descendant of the commit, so we do not add such a tag to the
> candidate pool.
>
> I think the idea of "cutoff" heuristic is exactly what generation
> numbers can improve, in an imperfect world where there are imperfect
> clocks.
Yep. I have a patch that will implement this behavior based on
Derrick's suggestion.
Thanks,
Jake
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-27 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-14 21:01 [PATCH] name-rev: test showing failure with non-monotonic commit dates Jacob Keller
2022-02-14 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-02-14 22:07 ` Jacob Keller
2022-02-15 14:48 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-02-15 23:38 ` Keller, Jacob E
2022-02-16 0:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-02-27 22:05 ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2022-03-09 21:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-02-15 7:15 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-02-16 1:16 ` Keller, Jacob E
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