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> Hmm, that's true; albeit unfortunate.
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> Still, using the date isn't any better. It'll give results which are
> about as random as just sorting by the sha1 of each parent.
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> Yes, the ordering of the parents in a merge is probably meaningless in
> the general case, but so is the date.
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> The best we could probably do, from a theoretical standpoint, is to look
> at the paths via each parent to a common ancestor, and look at how many
> of the commits on each path were done by the same committer. Even that
> isn't ideal, and it's probably fairly expensive -- but it's pointless to
> pretend we can infer anything from _either_ the dates or the ordering of
> the parents in a merge.
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