From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] show-branch: make --topo-order noop and default. Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:11:55 -0800 Message-ID: <7vslrsg41g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <7v4q4ajonx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43C70F69.7010103@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 13 05:12:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExGIC-0003WN-9R for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:12:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161335AbWAMEL6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:11:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964937AbWAMEL6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:11:58 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao07.cox.net ([68.230.241.32]:48794 "EHLO fed1rmmtao07.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964799AbWAMEL5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:11:57 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060113041107.QYZS3131.fed1rmmtao07.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:11:07 -0500 To: gitzilla@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <43C70F69.7010103@gmail.com> (A. Large Angry's message of "Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:24:41 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: A Large Angry SCM writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> It really does not make sense not doing --topo-order. > > I disagree. I do like to see the chronological commit history of some > repositories. But the thing is if you do chronological order, you may not see enough commits without --more=, because show-branches stops at the first common commit. Try it yourself in a repository with merges on topic branches of different vintage, with and without the option, to see where output stops.