Re: [PATCH v2] rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for sanity-check. Here is an updated one.
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> ---topo-order::
> +--date-order::
> + Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but
> + otherwise show commits in the commit timestamp order.
>
> - This option makes them appear in topological order (i.e.
> - descendant commits are shown before their parents).
> +--topo-order::
> + Show no parents before all of its children are shown, and
> + avoid showing commits on multiple lines of history
> + intermixed.
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Thomas Rast
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