Re: [BUG] git rev-list --no-walk A B C sorts by commit date incorrectly

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:

Not a rationale, but an explanation is that most of the time we walk the history and sorting by date is the first thing that needs to be done, and the --no-walk option was an afterthought that was tucked in.

I suspect that a three-liner patch to revision.c:prepare_revision_walk() would give you what you want. Instead of calling insert-by-date, you append to the tail when revs->no_walk is given, or something.