Re: [PATCH] name-rev: include taggerdate in considering the best name

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 24, 2016, 06:35 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1604240831470.2896@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq60v9pduf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi,

[fixing Uwe's email address, as the address bounces that was recorded in the commit introducing the flawed behavior, and I failed to check mailmap earlier.]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > ... I think this is still the simplest model we can use
> > without trying to really do a topo-sort. And in many ways it's the
> > simplest one to explain to people too: "we try to use the oldest
> > reference we can find as a base for the resulting name" is not a
> > complex or hard concept to explain.
> 
> Yes, the more I look at Dscho's patch, the more like it exactly for
> that reason.  Its behaviour is very simple from the end-user's point
> of view, unlike the historical one.

Well, seeing as I introduced the bug, it's only fair that I fix it, too.

Ciao, Dscho