Re: [PATCH] name-rev: include taggerdate in considering the best name

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

... I think this is still the simplest model we can use
without trying to really do a topo-sort. And in many ways it's the
simplest one to explain to people too: "we try to use the oldest
reference we can find as a base for the resulting name" is not a
complex or hard concept to explain.

Yes, the more I look at Dscho's patch, the more like it exactly for
that reason.  Its behaviour is very simple from the end-user's point
of view, unlike the historical one.