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copies: limit is an optimization, and doesn't provide guarantees
author Gábor Stefanik <gabor.stefanik@nng.com>
date Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:19:55 +0200
parents 69b61d0bb008
children cfdbada917cd
files mercurial/copies.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/copies.py	Sat Oct 01 20:20:11 2016 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/copies.py	Mon Oct 03 16:19:55 2016 +0200
@@ -465,6 +465,11 @@
     diverge = record all diverges in this dict
     copy = record all non-divergent copies in this dict
     fullcopy = record all copies in this dict
+
+    note: limit is only an optimization, and there is no guarantee that
+    irrelevant revisions will not be limited
+    there is no easy way to make this algorithm stop in a guaranteed way
+    once it "goes behind a certain revision".
     """
 
     ma = ca.manifest()