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Re: Commit graph not using minimal number of columns

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 26, 2023, 17:43 UTC
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Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> writes:
> To adapt this algorithm to a newer, dynamic ordering that cares about
> minimizing the rendered graph, I don't think changing the priority
> queue comparison would be sufficient. Something deeper would be
> required and would be quite messy.
Oh, I wasn't thinking about "graph-friendly" at all.

I was wondering if we replaced --date-order implementation with corrected commit date from the generation number work would give us a better output order that users would expect in general (with or without --graph).

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