Re: More build times

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> What you can do is ‘git rev-list -n 1 --before=<date> --first-parent
> origin/master’ and hope people don’t do things like “first merge
> master into my feature branch, then fast-forward master to the
> resulting merge commit” because this messes up the order of parent
> links in the merge.

Ah, thanks!  With --first-parent, I seem to be getting the state I'm
looking for (I think).  I've now re-started the benchmarking thing, so
in a week we should know whether that makes the graph smoother.  😅

(And I don't think we ever fast-forward master?)

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