From: Josh Tepper <josh@clarifai.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:28:18 GMT
Subject: Bug: git log: boundary commits do not respect order (e.g. date-order, topo-order)
Message-ID: <CAPFeJUA=7NyZZxkjpYjoRiXTb1WA1cQ-dYsn_XykMYt=iWGKOA@mail.gmail.com>

When using git log, boundary commits (ie, those commits added by
specifying --boundary) do not respect the order (e.g., --date-order,
--topo-order).  Consider the following commit history, where number
indicates the order of the commit timestamps:

<view with a fixed with font! 3's ancestor is 1, 6's ancestors are 4,5>
0----1----2----5  <--A
       \         \
         3----4----6  <--B


Executing the following command:

$ git log --boundary --date-order ^A B

Should produce the following order (boundary commits shown with dashes):
6 -5 4 3 -1

However, it in fact produces:
6 4 3 -7 -1

Please advise.

Best,
~Josh