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List:       git
Subject:    Re: detecting cycles in Git's commit graph
From:       "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce () spearce ! org>
Date:       2009-04-30 19:27:14
Message-ID: 20090430192714.GT23604 () spearce ! org
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Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org> wrote:
> Are there any tools for detecting cycles in the commit graph which
> have been caused by grafts?  I thought 'git fsck' might do it, but it
> doesn't seem to.

Nope.  Cycles don't happen in a DAG.  So nobody has created tools
for it.  :-)

Yes, grafts are impure and can be used to cause a cycle, which is
one reason among many we don't encourage them being used.
 
-- 
Shawn.
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