commit: use generation number in remove_redundant()

The static remove_redundant() method is used to filter a list of commits by removing those that are reachable from another commit in the list. This is used to remove all possible merge- bases except a maximal, mutually independent set. To determine these commits are independent, we use a number of paint_down_to_common() walks and use the PARENT1, PARENT2 flags to determine reachability. Since we only care about reachability and not the full set of merge-bases between 'one' and 'twos', we can use the 'min_generation' parameter to short-circuit the walk. When no commit-graph exists, there is no change in behavior. For a copy of the Linux repository, we measured the following performance improvements: git merge-base v3.3 v4.5 Before: 234 ms After: 208 ms Rel %: -11% git merge-base v4.3 v4.5 Before: 102 ms After: 83 ms Rel %: -19% The experiments above were chosen to demonstrate that we are improving the filtering of the merge-base set. In the first example, more time is spent walking the history to find the set of merge bases before the remove_redundant() call. The starting commits are closer together in the second example, therefore more time is spent in remove_redundant(). The relative change in performance differs as expected. Reported-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>