Re: Removal of "--merge-order"?

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> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
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> > I'm just a lowly user, but I see people trying to export git
> > trees to other SCMs, and they seem to prefer merge-order.
> > This is your chance to correct me about:
> > (a) how I am wrong; (b) how they are wrong.  8;)
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> Well, I didn't even realize anybody at all was using it. I've never seen
> any mention of it, and considering how ungodly slow it is, I would have
> expected somebody to pipe up about it..
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> I did a google search for "git" and "merge-order", and the only actual use
> (as opposed to mention in a man-page) I found in the 20 hits google showed
> was an old version of gitk.
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> > I've heard/seen you say that merge-order is not interesting,
> > but I still believe that *your* merge order of the Linux kernel
> > tree is almost all that people really care about.
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> Could you actually point to somebody using it? They're hiding it well.