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On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:40:35AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
S> Generally, sorting commits by committer timestamp will give the order
S> most people would expect. Unless some client has an unsynced clock, and
S> nothing can be done about that without a hypothetical smarter server and
S> client which support server-side rewriting of commits during push.

Don't agree with that. When you rebase or amend, original timestamp
doesn't change. A commit can sit for month in reviews & testing, can
morph to a quite different code and still preserve old timestamp.
Then it is finally pushed and most people (well, at least myself)
find the timestamp that arrived to official git quite misleading.

I already have had problems with that doing "eye bisecting" -
looking through history and searching for a commit that could
have caused a regression.

-- 
Gleb Smirnoff