From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:43:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit graph not using minimal number of columns
Message-ID: <xmqqwn1ysfo4.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <eb1c6c62-1081-a9d2-8504-db8bffc6c870@github.com>

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).