Re: Removal of "--merge-order"?

From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Feb 24, 2006, 17:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20060224173258.GA16500@mythryan2.michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602240918030.3771@g5.osdl.org>

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:23:24AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > I'm just a lowly user, but I see people trying to export git
> > trees to other SCMs, and they seem to prefer merge-order.
> > This is your chance to correct me about:
> > (a) how I am wrong; (b) how they are wrong.  8;)
> 
> Well, I didn't even realize anybody at all was using it. I've never seen 
> any mention of it, and considering how ungodly slow it is, I would have 
> expected somebody to pipe up about it..
> 
> I did a google search for "git" and "merge-order", and the only actual use 
> (as opposed to mention in a man-page) I found in the 20 hits google showed 
> was an old version of gitk.

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0511/12965.html

But topo-order would probably work as well, the default ordering just didn't work correctly in my tests.

Certainly not a case that votes *against* removal, just noting an actual user at one point.

-- 
Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere