This change is made so that gitk --all produces the same result for
every user irrespective of whether git-rev-parse --all produces
the same result for every user. By using --topo-order rather than
--merge-order this can be guaranteed and the existing (non-timestamp dependent)
behaviour of --merge-order can be maintained.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Paul, could you review this patch and if you agree, ack it.
The rationale for changing gitk to use --topo-order is that git-rev-list will
produce the same order for --topo-order irrespective of the order of the
start list, whereas git-rev-list --merge-order produces an order that is
deliberately
sensitive to the order of the start list.
Linus wants gitk --all to behave the same way, irrespective of what order
git-rev-parse --all produces its output. I want --merge-order to keep its
existing behaviour, so we agreed on this compromise whereby gitk uses
--topo-order rather than --merge-order by default.
My understanding of your code is that you only expect a minimal topological
ordering
guarantee and the ordering produced by --topo-order should be sufficient
for your needs - that is, you don't rely on the other aspect of the
--merge-order invariant.
I'll leave it to you and Linus to decide how you want to manage the merge
between
your HEAD and Linus'.
---
gitk | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
ff2ca5764029d451f2a728845dad12c4e950fae1
diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ proc getcommits {rargs} {
set parsed_args $rargs
}
if [catch {
- set commfd [open "|git-rev-list --header --merge-order $parsed_args" r]
+ set commfd [open "|git-rev-list --header --topo-order $parsed_args" r]
} err] {
puts stderr "Error executing git-rev-list: $err"
exit 1
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