Re: bug in name-rev on linux-2.6 repo?

Jeff King wrote:

Still looking, but definitely some kind of skew problem.

That explains it, then:

$ git log --format=%cd' %h' 19f5fb7 ^v2.6.34-rc1~200
Sun Jan 24 14:34:07 2010 -0500 19f5fb7
Mon Dec 7 10:36:20 2009 -0500 d2eecb0
Fri Jan 1 01:00:21 2010 -0500 f8ec9d6
Wed Dec 23 07:45:44 2009 -0500 71f2be2
Fri Jan 22 17:40:42 2010 -0500 1f2acb6
Mon Feb 15 20:17:55 2010 -0500 15121c1
Thu Feb 4 23:58:38 2010 -0500 a1de02d

This part of the history is linear.

Is the rule that every commit must be at most one day before each of
its parents?  This should probably be documented somewhere, since it
is possible to override the committer date with GIT_COMMITTER_DATE.

Jonathan