From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:38:26 GMT
Subject: Re: kernel.org now has gitweb installed
Message-ID: <1114724307.2734.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7v1x8u7g26.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:21 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "I want to view commit between these ones---give me a linearlized list
> of commits."  When following the ancestor chain from the current top,
> we can immediately stop upon seeing a commit made before the timestamp
> of the named bottom one.

This absolutely must not be timestamp based. If I ask for a list of
commits before 2.6.12-rc3 and 2.6.12-rc4 I _really_ want to see those
commits which happened before 2.6.12-rc3 but in a remote tree which was
only later pulled. That's what 'rev-tree AAAAAA ^BBBBBB' already gives
you.

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dwmw2