On Sunday 30 October 2005 16:36, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

Is this a viable option?

No.

There is no "ordering" in a distributed environment. We have things
happening in parallel, adn you can't really linearize the patches.

The closest you can get is "git bisect", which does the right thing.

  Linus

I know there isn't an absolute or stable ordering, but can't a temporary 
ordering be exported?

I was under the impression that the bk->cvs gateway squashed changes into a 
sort of order, way back when.  Admittedly this order wasn't stable, and new 
changes perturbed the whole list.  But just for debugging purposes with a 
"patch vs last -rc"?

Rob