From: Andreas Schwab Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:04:31 GMT Subject: Re: git merge commits are non-deterministic? what changed? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20121109133132.GK69724@acme.spoerlein.net> Ulrich Spörlein writes: > Two questions: > 1. Can we impose a stable ordering of the commits being recorded in a > merge commit? Listing parents in chronological order or something like > that. The order is determined by the order the refs are given to git merge (or git commit-tree when using the plumbing). > 2. Why the hell is the commit hash dependent on the ordering of the > parent commits? IMHO it should sort the set of parents before > calculating the hash ... What would be the sort key? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."