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Subject: Re: kernel.org now has gitweb installed
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:49:05 -0700
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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>>>>> "DW" == David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:

DW> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:21 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "I want to view commit between these ones---give me a linearlized list
>> of commits."  When following the ancestor chain from the current top,
>> we can immediately stop upon seeing a commit made before the timestamp
>> of the named bottom one.

DW> This absolutely must not be timestamp based. If I ask for a list of
DW> commits before 2.6.12-rc3 and 2.6.12-rc4 I _really_ want to see those
DW> commits which happened before 2.6.12-rc3 but in a remote tree which was
DW> only later pulled. That's what 'rev-tree AAAAAA ^BBBBBB' already gives
DW> you.

How true.  I stand corrected.