From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead•org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw•cz>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel.org now has gitweb installed
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:50:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42715A8F.8010803@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1114723214.2734.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> Hmm, that's true; albeit unfortunate.
>
> Still, using the date isn't any better. It'll give results which are
> about as random as just sorting by the sha1 of each parent.
>
> Yes, the ordering of the parents in a merge is probably meaningless in
> the general case, but so is the date.
>
> The best we could probably do, from a theoretical standpoint, is to look
> at the paths via each parent to a common ancestor, and look at how many
> of the commits on each path were done by the same committer. Even that
> isn't ideal, and it's probably fairly expensive -- but it's pointless to
> pretend we can infer anything from _either_ the dates or the ordering of
> the parents in a merge.
>
Perhaps the right thing to do is to draw a graph instead?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-28 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-28 1:38 kernel.org now has gitweb installed H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 4:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-28 7:35 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 8:10 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-28 8:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 9:23 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 21:20 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 21:47 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 21:50 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-04-28 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 22:12 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-29 2:46 ` Jan Harkes
2005-04-28 21:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-28 21:23 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-28 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 22:59 ` Gerhard Schrenk
2005-04-28 21:38 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-28 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
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