From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:47:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
Message-ID: <7va9xx8ohz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87sjbpa5m8.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> 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.