History simplification previously always treated merges as TREESAME
if they were TREESAME to any parent.

While this was consistent with the default behaviour, this could be
extremely unhelpful when searching detailed history, and could not be
overridden. For example, if a merge had ignored a change, as if by "-s
ours", then:

  git log -m -p --full-history -Schange file

would successfully locate "change"'s addition but would not locate the
merge that resolved against it.

Futher, simplify_merges could drop the actual parent that a commit
was TREESAME to, leaving it as a normal commit marked TREESAME that
isn't actually TREESAME to its remaining parent.

Now redefine a commit's TREESAME flag to be true only if a commit is
TREESAME to _all_ of its parents. This doesn't affect either the default
simplify_history behaviour (because partially TREESAME merges are turned
into normal commits), or full-history with parent rewriting (because all
merges are output). But it does affect other modes. The clearest
difference is that --full-history will show more merges - sufficient to
ensure that -m -p --full-history log searches can really explain every
change to the file, including those changes' ultimate fate in merges.

Also modify simplify_merges to recalculate TREESAME after removing
a parent. This is achieved by storing per-parent TREESAME flags on the
initial scan, so the combined flag can be easily recomputed.

This fixes some t6111 failures, but creates a couple of new ones -
we are now showing some merges that don't need to be shown.
Signed-off-by: NKevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The documentation assures users that "A...B" is defined as "A B --not
$(git merge-base --all A B)". This wasn't in fact quite true, because
the calculated merge bases were not sent to add_rev_cmdline().

The main effect of this was that although

  git rev-list --ancestry-path A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B)

worked, the simpler form

  git rev-list --ancestry-path A...B

failed with a "no bottom commits" error.

Other potential users of bottom commits could also be affected by this
problem, if they examine revs->cmdline_info; I came across the issue in
my proposed history traversal refinements series.

So ensure that the calculated merge bases are sent to add_rev_cmdline(),
flagged with new 'whence' enum value REV_CMD_MERGE_BASE.
Signed-off-by: NKevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The commit encoding is parsed by logmsg_reencode, there's no need for
the caller to re-parse it again. The reencoded message now has the new
encoding, not the original one. The caller would need to read commit
object again before parsing.
Signed-off-by: NNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

read_revisions_from_stdin() has passed pointers to its read buffer
down to handle_revision_arg() since its inception way back in 42cabc34
(Teach rev-list an option to read revs from the standard input.,
2006-09-05).  Even back then, this was a bug: through
add_pending_object, the argument was recorded in the object_array's
'name' field.

Fix it by making a copy whenever read_revisions_from_stdin() passes an
argument down the callchain.  The other caller runs handle_revision_arg()
on argv[], where it would be redundant to make a copy.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Kevin Bracey reports that the change regresses a case shown in the
user manual.

Trading one fix with another breakage is not worth it.  Just keep
the test to document the existing breakage, and revert the change
for now.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Logic in still_interesting function allows to stop the commits
traversing if the oldest processed commit is not older then the
youngest commit on the list to process and the list contains only
commits marked as not interesting ones. It can be premature when dealing
with a set of coequal commits. For example git rev-list A^! --not B
provides wrong answer if all commits in the range A..B had the same
commit time and there are more then 7 of them.

To fix this problem the relevant part of the logic in still_interesting
is changed to: the walk can be stopped if the oldest processed commit is
younger then the youngest commit on the list to processed.
Signed-off-by: NKacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

If you run "git log --grep=foo", we will run your regex on
the literal bytes of the commit message. This can provide
confusing results if the commit message is not in the same
encoding as your grep expression (or worse, you have commits
in multiple encodings, in which case your regex would need
to be written to match either encoding). On top of this, we
might also be grepping in the commit's notes, which are
already re-encoded, potentially leading to grepping in a
buffer with mixed encodings concatenated. This is insanity,
but most people never noticed, because their terminal and
their commit encodings all match.

Instead, let's massage the to-be-grepped commit into a
standardized encoding. There is not much point in adding a
flag for "this is the encoding I expect my grep pattern to
match"; the only sane choice is for it to use the log output
encoding. That is presumably what the user's terminal is
using, and it means that the patterns found by the grep will
match the output produced by git.

As a bonus, this fixes a potential segfault in commit_match
when commit->buffer is NULL, as we now build on logmsg_reencode,
which handles reading the commit buffer from disk if
necessary. The segfault can be triggered with:

        git commit -m 'text1' --allow-empty
        git commit -m 'text2' --allow-empty
        git log --graph --no-walk --grep 'text2'

which arguably does not make any sense (--graph inherently
wants a connected history, and by --no-walk the command line
is telling us to show discrete points in history without
connectivity), and we probably should forbid the
combination, but that is a separate issue.
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The merge simplification rule stated in 6546b593 (revision traversal:
show full history with merge simplification, 2008-07-31) still
treated merge commits too specially.  Namely, in a history with this
shape:

	---o---o---M
	          /
         x---x---x

where three 'x' were on a history completely unrelated to the main
history 'o' and do not touch any of the paths we are following, we
still said that after simplifying all of the parents of M, 'x'
(which is the leftmost 'x' that rightmost 'x simplifies down to) and
'o' (which would be the last commit on the main history that touches
the paths we are following) are independent from each other, and
both need to be kept.

That is incorrect; when the side branch 'x' never touches the paths,
it should be removed to allow M to simplify down to the last commit
on the main history that touches the paths.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When we taught the commit_match() mechanism to pay attention to the
new --use-mailmap option, we started to unconditionally copy the
commit object to a temporary buffer, just in case we need the author
and committer lines updated via the mailmap mechanism, and rewrite
author and committer using the mailmap.

It turns out that this has a rather unpleasant performance
implications.  In the linux kernel repository, running

  $ git log --author='Junio C Hamano' --pretty=short >/dev/null

under /usr/bin/time, with and without --use-mailmap (the .mailmap
file is 118 entries long, the particular author does not appear in
it), cost (with warm cache):

  [without --use-mailmap]
  5.42user 0.26system 0:05.70elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2005936maxresident)k
  0inputs+0outputs (0major+137669minor)pagefaults 0swaps

  [with --use-mailmap]
  6.47user 0.30system 0:06.78elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2006288maxresident)k
  0inputs+0outputs (0major+137692minor)pagefaults 0swaps

which incurs about 20% overhead.  The command is doing extra work,
so the extra cost may be justified.

But it is inexcusable to pay the cost when we do not need
author/committer match.  In the same repository,

  $ git log --grep='fix menuconfig on debian lenny' --pretty=short >/dev/null

shows very similar numbers as the above:

  [without --use-mailmap]
  5.32user 0.30system 0:05.63elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2005984maxresident)k
  0inputs+0outputs (0major+137672minor)pagefaults 0swaps

  [with --use-mailmap]
  6.64user 0.24system 0:06.89elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2006320maxresident)k
  0inputs+0outputs (0major+137694minor)pagefaults 0swaps

The latter case is an unnecessary performance regression.  We may
want to _show_ the result with mailmap applied, but we do not have
to copy and rewrite the author/committer of all commits we try to
match if we do not query for these fields.

Trivially optimize this performace regression by limiting the
rewrites for only when we are matching with author/committer fields.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Currently you can use mailmap to display log authors and committers
but you can't use the mailmap to find commits with mapped values.

This commit allows you to run:

    git log --use-mailmap --author mapped_name_or_email
    git log --use-mailmap --committer mapped_name_or_email

Of course it only works if the --use-mailmap option is used.

The new name and email are copied only when necessary.
Signed-off-by: NAntoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

We either stuff the notes message without modification for %N
userformat, or format it for human consumption.  Using two bits
is an overkill that does not benefit anybody.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When we added the "--perl-regexp" option (or "-P") to "git grep", we
should have done the same for the commands in the "git log" family,
but somehow we forgot to do so.  This corrects it, but we will
reserve the short-and-sweet "-P" option for something else for now.

Also introduce the "--basic-regexp" option for completeness, so that
the "last one wins" principle can be used to defeat an earlier -E
option, e.g. "git log -E --basic-regexp --grep='<bre>'".  Note that
it cannot have the short "-G" option as the option is to grep in the
patch text in the context of "log" family.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The command line option parser for "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'"
did not flip the "fixed" bit, violating the general "last option
wins" principle among conflicting options.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Instead of using the hand-rolled initialization sequence,
use grep_init() to populate the necessary bits.  This opens
the door to allow the calling commands to optionally read
grep.* configuration variables via git_config() if they
want to.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Notes are shown after commit body. From user perspective it looks
pretty much like commit body and they may assume --grep would search
in that part too.

Make it so.
Signed-off-by: NNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Similar to --author/--committer which filters commits by author and
committer header fields. --grep-reflog adds a fake "reflog" header to
commit and a grep filter to search on that line.

All rules to --author/--committer apply except no timestamp stripping.
Signed-off-by: NNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Our "grep" allows complex boolean expressions to be formed to match
each individual line with operators like --and, '(', ')' and --not.
Introduce the "--debug" option to show the parse tree to help people
who want to debug and enhance it.

Also "log" learns "--grep-debug" option to do the same.  The command
line parser to the log family is a lot more limited than the general
"git grep" parser, but it has special handling for header matching
(e.g. "--author"), and a parse tree is valuable when working on it.

Note that "--all-match" is *not* any individual node in the parse
tree.  It is an instruction to the evaluator to check all the nodes
in the top-level backbone have matched and reject a document as
non-matching otherwise.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When 'git log' is passed the --no-walk option, no revision walk takes
place, naturally. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, however, the provided
revisions still get sorted by commit date. So e.g 'git log --no-walk
HEAD HEAD~1' and 'git log --no-walk HEAD~1 HEAD' give the same result
(unless the two revisions share the commit date, in which case they
will retain the order given on the command line). As the commit that
introduced --no-walk (8e64006e (Teach revision machinery about
--no-walk, 2007-07-24)) points out, the sorting is intentional, to
allow things like

 git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --decorate --all --no-walk

to show all refs in order by commit date.

But there are also other cases where the sorting is not wanted, such
as

 <command producing revisions in order> |
       git log --oneline --no-walk --stdin

To accomodate both cases, leave the decision of whether or not to sort
up to the caller, by allowing --no-walk={sorted,unsorted}, defaulting
to 'sorted' for backward-compatibility reasons.
Signed-off-by: NMartin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Either end of revision range operator can be omitted to default to HEAD,
as in "origin.." (what did I do since I forked) or "..origin" (what did
they do since I forked).  But the current parser interprets ".."  as an
empty range "HEAD..HEAD", and worse yet, because ".." does exist on the
filesystem, we get this annoying output:

  $ cd Documentation/howto
  $ git log .. ;# give me recent commits that touch Documentation/ area.
  fatal: ambiguous argument '..': both revision and filename
  Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions

Surely we could say "git log ../" or even "git log -- .." to disambiguate,
but we shouldn't have to.
Helped-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff_setup_done() has historically returned an error code, but lost
the last nonzero return in 943d5b73 (allow diff.renamelimit to be set
regardless of -M/-C, 2006-08-09).  The callers were in a pretty
confused state: some actually checked for the return code, and some
did not.

Let it return void, and patch all callers to take this into account.
This conveniently also gets rid of a handful of different(!) error
messages that could never be triggered anyway.

Note that the function can still die().
Signed-off-by: NThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The diff code represents paths using the diff_filespec
struct. This struct has a sha1 to represent the sha1 of the
content at that path, as well as a sha1_valid member which
indicates whether its sha1 field is actually useful. If
sha1_valid is not true, then the filespec represents a
working tree file (e.g., for the no-index case, or for when
the index is not up-to-date).

The diff_filespec is only used internally, though. At the
interfaces to the diff subsystem, callers feed the sha1
directly, and we create a diff_filespec from it. It's at
that point that we look at the sha1 and decide whether it is
valid or not; callers may pass the null sha1 as a sentinel
value to indicate that it is not.

We should not typically see the null sha1 coming from any
other source (e.g., in the index itself, or from a tree).
However, a corrupt tree might have a null sha1, which would
cause "diff --patch" to accidentally diff the working tree
version of a file instead of treating it as a blob.

This patch extends the edges of the diff interface to accept
a "sha1_valid" flag whenever we accept a sha1, and to use
that flag when creating a filespec. In some cases, this
means passing the flag through several layers, making the
code change larger than would be desirable.

One alternative would be to simply die() upon seeing
corrupted trees with null sha1s. However, this fix more
directly addresses the problem (while bogus sha1s in a tree
are probably a bad thing, it is really the sentinel
confusion sending us down the wrong code path that is what
makes it devastating). And it means that git is more capable
of examining and debugging these corrupted trees. For
example, you can still "diff --raw" such a tree to find out
when the bogus entry was introduced; you just cannot do a
"--patch" diff (just as you could not with any other
corrupted tree, as we do not have any content to diff).
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

During a revision traversal in which --max-count has been
specified, we decrement a counter for each revision returned
by get_revision. When it hits 0, we typically return NULL
(the exception being if we still have boundary commits to
show).

However, before we check the counter, we call get_revision_1
to get the next commit. This might involve looking at a
large number of commits if we have restricted the traversal
(e.g., we might traverse until we find the next commit whose
diff actually matches a pathspec).

There's no need to make this get_revision_1 call when our
counter runs out. If we are not in --boundary mode, we will
just throw away the result and immediately return NULL. If
we are in --boundary mode, then we will still throw away the
result, and then start showing the boundary commits.
However, as git_revision_1 does not impact the boundary
list, it should not have an impact.

In most cases, avoiding this work will not be especially
noticeable. However, in some cases, it can make a big
difference:

  [before]
  $ time git rev-list -1 origin Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt
  8d141a1d

  real    0m0.301s
  user    0m0.280s
  sys     0m0.016s

  [after]
  $ time git rev-list -1 origin Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.2.txt
  8d141a1d

  real    0m0.010s
  user    0m0.008s
  sys     0m0.000s

Note that the output is produced almost instantaneously in
the first case, and then git uselessly spends a long time
looking for the next commit to touch that file (but there
isn't one, and we traverse all the way down to the roots).
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Add a field to setup_revision_opt structure and allow these callers
to tell the setup_revisions command parsing machinery that short SHA1
it encounters are meant to name committish.

This step does not go all the way to connect the setup_revisions()
to sha1_name.c yet.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The existing "cant_be_filename" that tells the function that the
caller knows the arg is not a path (hence it does not have to be
checked for absense of the file whose name matches it) is made into
a bit in the flag word.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Many callers know that the user meant to name a committish by
syntactical positions where the object name appears.  Calling this
function allows the machinery to disambiguate shorter-than-unique
abbreviated object names between committish and others.

Note that this does NOT error out when the named object is not a
committish. It is merely to give a hint to the disambiguation
machinery.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The function takes user input string and returns the object name
(binary SHA-1) with mode bits and path when the object was looked
up in a tree.

Additionally give hints to help disambiguation of abbreviated object
names when the caller knows what it is looking for.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

There are only two callers, and they will benefit from being able to
pass disambiguation hints to underlying get_sha1_with_context() API
once it happens.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

verify_filename() can be called in two different contexts. Either we
just tried to interpret a string as an object name, and it fails, so
we try looking for a working tree file (i.e. we finished looking at
revs that come earlier on the command line, and the next argument
must be a pathname), or we _know_ that we are looking for a
pathname, and shouldn't even try interpreting the string as an
object name.

For example, with this change, we get:

  $ git log COPYING HEAD:inexistant
  fatal: HEAD:inexistant: no such path in the working tree.
  Use '-- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.
  $ git log HEAD:inexistant
  fatal: Path 'inexistant' does not exist in 'HEAD'
Signed-off-by: NMatthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The simplify_merges() function needs to look at all history chain to
find the closest ancestor that is relevant after the simplification,
but after --first-parent traversal, side parents haven't been marked
for relevance (they are irrelevant by definition due to the nature
of first-parent-only traversal) nor culled from the parents list of
resulting commits.

We cannot simply remove these side parents from the parents list, as
the output phase still wants to see the parents.  Instead, teach
simplify_one() and its callees to ignore the later parents.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Among the three similar-looking loops that walk singly linked
commit_list, the first one is only peeking and the same list is
later used for real work.  Leave a comment not to mistakenly
free its elements there.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The code internally runs sort_in_topo_order() already; it is more clear
to spell it out in the option parsing phase, instead of adding a special
case in simplify_merges() function.

By using commit_list_insert(), we added new items to the top of the
list and, since this is not the order we want, reversed it afterwards.
Simplify this process by adding new items at the bottom instead,
getting rid of the reversal step.
Signed-off-by: NRene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

If a commit-ish passed to cherry-pick or revert happens to have a file
of the same name, git complains that the argument is ambiguous and
advises to use '--'. To make things worse, the '--' argument is removed
by parse_options, und so passing '--' has no effect.

Instead, always interpret cherry-pick/revert arguments as revisions.
Signed-off-by: NClemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Speed up prepare_revision_walk() by adding commits without sorting
to the commit_list and at the end sort the list in one go.  Thanks
to mergesort() working behind the scenes, this is a lot faster for
large numbers of commits than the current insert sort.

Also introduce and use commit_list_reverse(), to keep the ordering
of commits sharing the same commit date unchanged.  That's because
commit_list_insert_by_date() sorts commits with descending date,
but adds later entries with the same date entries last, while
commit_list_insert() always inserts entries at the top.  The
following commit_list_sort_by_date() keeps the order of entries
sharing the same date.

Jeff's test case, in a repo with lots of refs, was to run:

  # make a new commit on top of HEAD, but not yet referenced
  sha1=`git commit-tree HEAD^{tree} -p HEAD </dev/null`

  # now do the same "connected" test that receive-pack would do
  git rev-list --objects $sha1 --not --all

With a git.git with a ref for each revision, master needs (best of
five):

	real	0m2.210s
	user	0m2.188s
	sys	0m0.016s

And with this patch:

	real	0m0.480s
	user	0m0.456s
	sys	0m0.020s
Signed-off-by: NRene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Previously it was not possible to iterate revisions twice using the
revision walking api. We add a reset_revision_walk() which clears the
used flags. This allows us to do multiple sequencial revision walks.

We add the appropriate calls to the existing submodule machinery doing
revision walks. This is done to avoid surprises if future code wants to
call these functions more than once during the processes lifetime.
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

"git log -S<string>" is a useful way to find the last commit in the
codebase that touched the <string>. As it was designed to be used by a
porcelain script to dig the history starting from a block of text that
appear in the starting commit, it never had to look for anything but an
exact match.

When used by an end user who wants to look for the last commit that
removed a string (e.g. name of a variable) that he vaguely remembers,
however, it is useful to support case insensitive match.

When given the "--regexp-ignore-case" (or "-i") option, which originally
was designed to affect case sensitivity of the search done in the commit
log part, e.g. "log --grep", the matches made with -S/-G pickaxe search is
done case insensitively now.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Before the grep_source interface existed, grep_buffer was
used by two types of callers:

  1. Ones which pulled a file into a buffer, and then wanted
     to supply the file's name for the output (i.e.,
     git grep).

  2. Ones which really just wanted to grep a buffer (i.e.,
     git log --grep).

Callers in set (1) should now be using grep_source. Callers
in set (2) always pass NULL for the "name" parameter of
grep_buffer. We can therefore get rid of this now-useless
parameter.
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

In a topic branch workflow, you often want to find the latest commit that
merged a side branch that touched a particular area of the system, so that
a new topic branch to work on that area can be forked from that commit.
For example, I wanted to find an appropriate fork-point to queue Luke's
changes related to git-p4 in contrib/fast-import/.

"git log --first-parent" traverses the first-parent chain, and "-m --stat"
shows the list of paths touched by commits including merge commits.  We
could ask the question this way:

    # What is the latest commit that touched that path?
    $ git log --first-parent --oneline -m --stat master |
      sed -e '/^ contrib\/fast-import\/git-p4 /q' | tail

The above finds that 8cbfc118 (Merge branch 'pw/p4-view-updates',
2012-01-06) was such a commit.

But a more natural way to spell this question is this:

    $ git log --first-parent --oneline -m --stat -1 master -- \
      contrib/fast-import/git-p4

Unfortunately, this does not work. It finds ecb7cf98 (git-p4: rewrite view
handling, 2012-01-02). This commit is a part of the merged topic branch
and is _not_ on the first-parent path from the 'master':

    $ git show-branch 8cbfc118 ecb7cf98
    ! [8cbfc118] Merge branch 'pw/p4-view-updates'
     ! [ecb7cf98] git-p4: rewrite view handling
    --
    -  [8cbfc118] Merge branch 'pw/p4-view-updates'
    +  [8cbfc118^2] git-p4: view spec documentation
    ++ [ecb7cf98] git-p4: rewrite view handling

The problem is caused by the merge simplification logic when it inspects
the merge commit 8cbfc118. In this case, the history leading to the tip of
'master' did not touch git-p4 since 'pw/p4-view-updates' topic forked, and
the result of the merge is simply a copy from the tip of the topic branch
in the view limited by the given pathspec.  The merge simplification logic
discards the history on the mainline side of the merge, and pretends as if
the sole parent of the merge is its second parent, i.e. the tip of the
topic. While this simplification is correct in the general case, it is at
least surprising if not outright wrong when the user explicitly asked to
show the first-parent history.

Here is an attempt to fix this issue, by not allowing us to compare the
merge result with anything but the first parent when --first-parent is in
effect, to avoid the history traversal veering off to the side branch.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Recursion in a DAG is generally a bad idea because it could be very
deep. Be defensive and avoid recursion in mark_parents_uninteresting()
and clear_commit_marks().

mark_parents_uninteresting() learns a trick from clear_commit_marks()
to avoid malloc() in (dominant) single-parent case.
Signed-off-by: NNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>