From b6b15db3f464b18180eee79927cb324fd63e15ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:47:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Replace merge-base implementation

The old implementation was a nice algorithm, but, unfortunately, it could
be confused in some cases and would not necessarily do the obvious thing
if one argument was decended from the other. This version fixes that by
changing the criterion to the most recent common ancestor.

Signed-Off-By: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 merge-base.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)

diff --git a/merge-base.c b/merge-base.c
index ac1153bc..0e4c58ed 100644
--- a/merge-base.c
+++ b/merge-base.c
@@ -5,67 +5,63 @@
 static struct commit *process_list(struct commit_list **list_p, int this_mark,
 				   int other_mark)
 {
-	struct commit_list *parent, *temp;
-	struct commit_list *posn = *list_p;
-	*list_p = NULL;
-	while (posn) {
-		parse_commit(posn->item);
-		if (posn->item->object.flags & this_mark) {
-			/*
-			  printf("%d already seen %s %x\n",
-			  this_mark
-			  sha1_to_hex(posn->parent->sha1),
-			  posn->parent->flags);
-			*/
-			/* do nothing; this indicates that this side
-			 * split and reformed, and we only need to
-			 * mark it once.
-			 */
-		} else if (posn->item->object.flags & other_mark) {
-			return posn->item;
-		} else {
-			/*
-			  printf("%d based on %s\n",
-			  this_mark,
-			  sha1_to_hex(posn->parent->sha1));
-			*/
-			posn->item->object.flags |= this_mark;
-			
-			parent = posn->item->parents;
-			while (parent) {
-				temp = malloc(sizeof(struct commit_list));
-				temp->next = *list_p;
-				temp->item = parent->item;
-				*list_p = temp;
-				parent = parent->next;
-			}
-		}
-		posn = posn->next;
+	struct commit *item = (*list_p)->item;
+	
+	if (item->object.flags & this_mark) {
+		/*
+		  printf("%d already seen %s %x\n",
+		  this_mark
+		  sha1_to_hex(posn->parent->sha1),
+		  posn->parent->flags);
+		*/
+		/* do nothing; this indicates that this side
+		 * split and reformed, and we only need to
+		 * mark it once.
+		 */
+		*list_p = (*list_p)->next;
+	} else if (item->object.flags & other_mark) {
+		return item;
+	} else {
+		/*
+		  printf("%d based on %s\n",
+		  this_mark,
+		  sha1_to_hex(posn->parent->sha1));
+		*/
+		pop_most_recent_commit(list_p);
+		item->object.flags |= this_mark;
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }
 
 struct commit *common_ancestor(struct commit *rev1, struct commit *rev2)
 {
-	struct commit_list *rev1list = malloc(sizeof(struct commit_list));
-	struct commit_list *rev2list = malloc(sizeof(struct commit_list));
+	struct commit_list *rev1list = NULL;
+	struct commit_list *rev2list = NULL;
 
-	rev1list->item = rev1;
-	rev1list->next = NULL;
+	commit_list_insert(rev1, &rev1list);
+	commit_list_insert(rev2, &rev2list);
 
-	rev2list->item = rev2;
-	rev2list->next = NULL;
+	parse_commit(rev1);
+	parse_commit(rev2);
 
 	while (rev1list || rev2list) {
 		struct commit *ret;
-		ret = process_list(&rev1list, 0x1, 0x2);
-		if (ret) {
-			/* XXXX free lists */
-			return ret;
+		if (!rev1list) {
+			// process 2
+			ret = process_list(&rev2list, 0x2, 0x1);
+		} else if (!rev2list) {
+			// process 1
+			ret = process_list(&rev1list, 0x1, 0x2);
+		} else if (rev1list->item->date < rev2list->item->date) {
+			// process 2
+			ret = process_list(&rev2list, 0x2, 0x1);
+		} else {
+			// process 1
+			ret = process_list(&rev1list, 0x1, 0x2);
 		}
-		ret = process_list(&rev2list, 0x2, 0x1);
 		if (ret) {
-			/* XXXX free lists */
+			free_commit_list(rev1list);
+			free_commit_list(rev2list);
 			return ret;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.11.0