+
+ /*
+ * Normally we haven't parsed the parent
+ * yet, so we won't have a parent of a parent
+ * here. However, it may turn out that we've
+ * reached this commit some other way (where it
+ * wasn't uninteresting), in which case we need
+ * to mark its parents recursively too..
+ */
+ if (commit->parents)
+ mark_parents_uninteresting(commit);
+
+ /*
+ * A missing commit is ok iff its parent is marked
+ * uninteresting.
+ *
+ * We just mark such a thing parsed, so that when
+ * it is popped next time around, we won't be trying
+ * to parse it and get an error.
+ */
+ if (!has_sha1_file(commit->object.sha1))
+ commit->object.parsed = 1;