Re: [PATCH] name-rev: test showing failure with non-monotonic commit dates

> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
>
> > From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
> >
> > If a commit in a sequence of linear history has a non-monotonically
> > increasing commit timestamp, git name-rev will not properly name the
> > commit.
> >
> > However, if you use --annotate-stdin then the commit does actually get
> > picked up and named properly.
>
> IIRC, this is to be expected.
>
> When preparing to answer --annotate-stdin request, the command has
> to dig down to the root of the history, which would be too expensive
> in some repositories and wants to stop traversal early when it knows
> particular commits it needs to describe.
>
> Dscho?  I think this is pretty much a fundamental part of the
> initial version added by bd321bcc (Add git-name-rev, 2005-10-26) and
> kept that way to this day, I think.