Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:36:22 -0800 From: Mark Millard via freebsd-git <freebsd-git@freebsd.org> To: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Ulrich_Sp=C3=B6rlein?= <uqs@freebsd.org>, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>, freebsd-git <freebsd-git@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cgit, ages and chronological order Message-ID: <D36677E0-68F3-45A0-99F7-1D797EE94F7C@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <YZVSx45FLInB2pFP@benson.stsp.name> References: <9766b3e1-fb5d-1993-46e2-057e2567315a@gmail.com> <CAJ9axoT6kEwC%2Bt5zHSKPSFgFmaOt8-CXPAG5jsanWobT4LZhpA@mail.gmail.com> <36020FD7-32A4-4869-B6A2-2622F50F6478@yahoo.com> <YZTOE5jPwxXrkgbY@benson.stsp.name> <BCC5C587-7296-47D3-8DDC-311C95637297@yahoo.com> <YZVSx45FLInB2pFP@benson.stsp.name>
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On 2021-Nov-17, at 11:06, Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 08:40:30AM -0800, Mark Millard via freebsd-git = wrote: >> That is the order of the history on the branch on the >> FreeBSD server. It does not follow the Age: Age need >> not track the sequencing on the branch on the server. >=20 > I see. Sorry, I misunderstood the case under discussion. > If the displayed commits are already ordered by parent-commit = relationships, > then displaying commits in that order regardless of timestamp makes = sense, > of course. > Sorting commits by timestamp only matters when parallel commits from > distinct branches need to be sorted into a single list for display (as > opposed to drawing a graph). Yea, trying to make a linear list out of partially-ordered things is messy for interpreting the results. But https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/ for main does include a graph at the left: One is currently visible on the first page that is not linear (from a zfs merge: 2 parents involved in what is visible). =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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