From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:26:28 GMT
Subject: Re: cogito - how do I ???
Message-ID: <E1DaP7k-0007ar-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505230731430.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> I actually suspect that whole time thing was a mistake, it seemed sensible 
> back when we didn't have any other way of ordering the changesets well, 
> but it's really a bad ordering anyway to do it by time (ie add a "sort 
> -rn" in there), and we can (and probably should) order rev-tree output 
> with some topological sort based on the commit tree.

Yes please.  Can we also have a rev-* command that outputs parent
relations instead of a simple list? That is,

<tree-1> <parent-1>
<tree-1> <parent-2>
<tree-2> <parent-3>
...

Then you could just run tsort for rev-tree, plus you could use this
for other things like finding merges.

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