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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 22, 2016, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq60v9pduf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxLoi8RAYOZS8ziaGXkbTOdQ=YFbMA0EO0eFpNVgnugKA@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> ... 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.