Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:
Btw, I can certainly understand if you don't want to do this before 1.3.x.
Since there's no actual user-visible advantage to it, it's probably worth
dropping for now.
Well, I bit the bullet, fixed-up the remaining issues I found in
rev-list in your grand unified version, reverted the revert, and
ported the changes for log/whatchanged/show.
For now this lives in the "next" branch and _will_ not graduate
before 1.3.0, of course.