From: Paul Mackerras Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:19:54 GMT Subject: Re: New features in gitk Message-ID: <18218.63946.772767.179841@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: 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.