From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:30:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
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.

> 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.