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Re: Difference between --date-order and reverse chronological order?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 27, 2011, 17:36 UTC
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Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com> writes:
> But by Git's definition, for a child commit to be created, its parent
> must already exist. So even in reverse chronological order, all
> parents should come after all their children, no?

I think "distributed" and "your clock may be skewed" would solve that puzzlement ;-)

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