On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
And quite frankly, I've seen that behaviour from you before, when it comes
to other things. So go away. Write the code. Come back with patches. In
the meantime, we've told you what to do: use --full-history if you really
want it.
Btw, if you really do end up wanting to actually do something about it, I
can already tell you that trying to do so in "git log" isn't going to be
useful. Do it in "gitk" instead, and make gitk simplify the --full-history
output.
I tried to explain to you the why part earlier (go back and look for
"incremental" and "topo-sort"), but it all seemed to fly right by you, and
you started repeating your ranting instead.
IOW, put up or shut up.
Linus