On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:21 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
"I want to view commit between these ones---give me a linearlized list
of commits." When following the ancestor chain from the current top,
we can immediately stop upon seeing a commit made before the timestamp
of the named bottom one.
This absolutely must not be timestamp based. If I ask for a list of
commits before 2.6.12-rc3 and 2.6.12-rc4 I _really_ want to see those
commits which happened before 2.6.12-rc3 but in a remote tree which was
only later pulled. That's what 'rev-tree AAAAAA ^BBBBBB' already gives
you.
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dwmw2