Re: [PATCH] rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Aug 14, 2012, 15:47 UTC
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes: > >> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes: >> >>> So the --topo-order switch *ensures* that we process commits in >>> topological order even in the face of skewed clocks. >> >> Yes, I *think* that I attempted to show with the illustration. > > But then the new description is wrong. It claims that children are > always before parents, which is not true in the face of clock skew.
Ah, you are talking about the "even without this option" part. Yeah, that does not hold true.