From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:42:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
Message-ID: <87k3wzxm6e.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vmx1v53fb.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>   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.
[...]
> ---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.

Ack, thanks.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch