Re: New features in gitk

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Nov 2, 2007, 10:19 UTC
Message-ID: <18218.63946.772767.179841@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711010815320.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds writes:

> If that's the only reason for using it, then please stop, and use 
> "--first-parent" instead.

How would that help? That doesn't list about 2/3 of the commits at all.

In any case, no that's not the only reason. The main reason is that it (i.e. --topo-order) spits out the commits in exactly the order that gitk wants to display them (of which the bit about parents coming after all their children is a part), and thus reduces the amount of processing I need to do in Tcl.

Paul.

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