What about revisions that share the same timestamp?  Are they sorted first
by timestamp and then by rev_id?

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]
> wrote:

> prop=revisions has long ordered revisions by rev_id rather than timestamp
> when returning results for a single page. In most cases this doesn't make a
> difference, but for old pages imported from earlier versions of Wikipedia,
> for revisions imported from Special:Import, and so on these orderings don't
> always match.
>
> prop=revisions has now been updated[1] to order by timestamp rather than
> id. While this is technically a breaking change, it seems unlikely that any
> clients will actually be broken by this.
>
> This should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.26wmf4, see
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap for the schedule.
>
> [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/188843/
>
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> Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
> Software Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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