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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 24, 2006, 17:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602240918030.3771@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0602240840520.7894@shark.he.net>

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;)

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..

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.

> 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.

Could you actually point to somebody using it? They're hiding it well.

> Apparently I needed to go to LCA to hear you discuss git.

I certainly never delved into any of that..

		Linus