+ if (!from_one || from_one->flags & assign_flag)
+ continue;
+
+ from_one = deref_tag(the_repository, from_one,
+ "a from object", 0);
+ if (!from_one || from_one->type != OBJ_COMMIT) {
+ /* no way to tell if this is reachable by
+ * looking at the ancestry chain alone, so
+ * leave a note to ourselves not to worry about
+ * this object anymore.
+ */
+ from->objects[i].item->flags |= assign_flag;
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ list[nr_commits] = (struct commit *)from_one;
+ if (parse_commit(list[nr_commits]) ||
+ list[nr_commits]->generation < min_generation) {
+ result = 0;
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
+
+ nr_commits++;