git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 14, 2012, 14:30 UTC
Message-ID
<7vzk5x8s1q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<877gt16ewe.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
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.
Show 6 quoted lines
> I suspect that
>
>> +	their parents, but this tries to avoid showing commits on
>> +	multiple lines of history intermixed.
>
> is just a fortunate side effect of the topological sort.

I am not sure if it is "side effect"; I *think* it was the "primary objective" we added topo-order in the first place.

Previous: Thomas RastNext: Thomas Rast
Message 8 of 26 in “rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description”
  1. rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order descriptionJunio C Hamano, Aug 13, 2012
  2. Martin von ZweigbergkAug 13, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2012
  4. Martin von ZweigbergkAug 14, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2012
  6. Michael HaggertyAug 14, 2012
  7. Thomas RastAug 14, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2012
  9. Thomas RastAug 14, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2012
  11. rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order descriptionJunio C Hamano, Aug 15, 2012
  12. Martin von ZweigbergkAug 16, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  15. Thomas RastAug 16, 2012
  16. Michael HaggertyAug 16, 2012
  17. Thomas RastAug 16, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  19. Thomas RastAug 17, 2012
  20. Thomas RastAug 17, 2012
  21. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2012
  22. Thomas RastAug 17, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2012
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2012
  25. Michael HaggertyAug 16, 2012
  26. Thomas RastAug 16, 2012

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.