From: Toon Claes Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:45:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] last-modified: implement faster algorithm Message-ID: <87plalu7r7.fsf@iotcl.com> In-Reply-To: "D. Ben Knoble" writes: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM Toon Claes wrote: >> As an added benefit, this implementation gives more correct results. For >> example implementation in 'master' gives: > > "More correct" is a bit of an oxymoron, no? It's either correct or > it's not :) I can rephrase to "more accurate" or something that's better suited. >> $ git log --max-count=1 --format=%H -- pkt-line.h >> 15df15fe07ef66b51302bb77e393f3c5502629de >> >> $ git last-modified -- pkt-line.h >> 15df15fe07ef66b51302bb77e393f3c5502629de pkt-line.h >> >> $ git last-modified | grep pkt-line.h >> 5b49c1af03e600c286f63d9d9c9fb01403230b9f pkt-line.h > > It seems this commit is the merge to a maintenance branch, which was > authored and committed after the mainline merge but topologically we'd > probably consider it "earlier," at least starting from master? Anyway, > I'm not clear why this result was produced. Yeah, me neither. But it's a nice side-effect this behavior result goes away with this patch. -- Cheers, Toon