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Paul Mackerras, Mon, Jan 21, 2008 10:50:34 +0100:
> I'd be interested to know if you can trigger it with the "dev" branch
> of gitk, too.  The dev branch doesn't use --topo-order or
> --date-order, but instead does the topological sort itself, so the
> cold-cache case is a lot faster (and the hot-cache case goes just as
> fast as before).  And because I can now reorder the commits, I can put
> each open-circle commit just after the last merge that has it as a
> parent, which ends up looking much nicer too.

It is better, but sometimes the layout seem to be a bit too
"aggressively cleaned up": there are just merges and arrows pointing
in all directions but very few of real information.