Re: [RFH] revision limiting sometimes ignored

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Feb 6, 2008, 01:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802052021250.2732@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802052228280.8543@racer.site>

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> In our case, this would mean that the revision walker should realise that 
> a child whose date is not older than its parent commit must be wrong.  And 
> just take the parent's date instead (but maybe only for the purpose of 
> limiting).

Only for the committer's date of course. Author's date might be completely random.

Nicolas

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