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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Occasional wrong behavior of rev-walking (rev-list, log, etc.)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 09:41:55 -0700
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Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> My guess is that rev-walking is tripping on the fact that this repository
> has commit dates in random order.

Yeah, that is well known (look for SLOP both in the code and list
archive).