From: Russell King Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:11:16 GMT Subject: Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one? Message-ID: <20050417211116.F13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:08:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: > > This will (and does) do exactly what I want. I'll also read into the > > above a request that you want it in forward date order. 8) > > No, I actually don't _think_ I care. In many ways I'm more used to > "reverse date order", because that's usually how you view a changelog > (with a pager, and most recent changes at the top). > > Which one makes sense when asking me to merge? I don't know, and I don't > think it really even matters, but maybe we can add a "for now" to whatever > decision you end up coming to? It's trivial to change - it's either sort -n or sort -nr ! I'll pick the reverse format so that we generate the changelog in the order which people have come to expect from our previous set of tools. Consistency with existing practises is a good thing at this point. -- Russell King