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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [RFH] revision limiting sometimes ignored
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:22:57 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> In our case, this would mean that the revision walker should realise that 
> a child whose date is not older than its parent commit must be wrong.  And 
> just take the parent's date instead (but maybe only for the purpose of 
> limiting).

Only for the committer's date of course.  Author's date might be 
completely random.


Nicolas