ident.c: add split_ident_line() to parse formatted ident line

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 89d3a8fafbe5d066a63c9b1f42113c7de5577c5c..18be62b3169095b908cb521cf9be211a9339029d 100644 (file)
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int rev_same_tree_as_empty(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit)
 static void try_to_simplify_commit(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit)
 {
        struct commit_list **pp, *parent;
-       int tree_changed = 0, tree_same = 0;
+       int tree_changed = 0, tree_same = 0, nth_parent = 0;
 
        /*
         * If we don't do pruning, everything is interesting
@@ -444,6 +444,14 @@ static void try_to_simplify_commit(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit)
        while ((parent = *pp) != NULL) {
                struct commit *p = parent->item;
 
+               /*
+                * Do not compare with later parents when we care only about
+                * the first parent chain, in order to avoid derailing the
+                * traversal to follow a side branch that brought everything
+                * in the path we are limited to by the pathspec.
+                */
+               if (revs->first_parent_only && nth_parent++)
+                       break;
                if (parse_commit(p) < 0)
                        die("cannot simplify commit %s (because of %s)",
                            sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1),