From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:00:41 GMT Subject: Re: [BUG] git rev-list --no-walk A B C sorts by commit date incorrectly Message-ID: <7v62u043ba.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Kevin Ballard writes: > Is there any rationale for this behavior? 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.