From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:36:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: Break annotated tag ties by tagger date
Message-ID: <7vwrwera05.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100411015433.GB23075@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> If more than one annotated tag points at the same commit, use the
> tag whose tagger field has a more recent date stamp.  This resolves
> non-deterministic cases where the maintainer has done:

I think it is a good idea to introduce this tiebreaker to give the listing
some degree of stability.  And I also notice that you prepared a patch
that can easily apply to an older codebase like 1.6.6 maintenance track.

I have anything against this as an incremental and low impact improvement,
but at the same time I think we might want to consider adding the tagger
date to "struct tag".