From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:21:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore expected list order for --merge-order switch
Message-ID: <2cfc403205070516216b911160@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050705010619.13581.qmail@blackcubes.dyndns.org>

G'day Linus,

Is there some reason why this didn't get applied?

jon.

On 7/5/05, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A recent change to rev-list altered the order in which start points
> are presented to the merge-order sort algorithm. This caused
> breaks in the t/t6001 unit tests.
> 
> This change restores the order in which start points are presented to the
> the merge-order sort algorithm (but leaves the order unchanged from
> the immediately preceding behaviour for non --merge-order sorts).
> 
> The order in which arguments are presented to the merge-order
> sort algorithm is significant, since left-most arguments
> are expected to sort last so as to be consistent with
> how left-most parents sort.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>