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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Cc: Javier Mora <cousteaulecommandant@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit graph not using minimal number of columns
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:43:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwn1ysfo4.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb1c6c62-1081-a9d2-8504-db8bffc6c870@github.com> (Derrick Stolee's message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:35:32 -0400")

Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> writes:

> To adapt this algorithm to a newer, dynamic ordering that cares about
> minimizing the rendered graph, I don't think changing the priority
> queue comparison would be sufficient. Something deeper would be
> required and would be quite messy.

Oh, I wasn't thinking about "graph-friendly" at all.  

I was wondering if we replaced --date-order implementation with
corrected commit date from the generation number work would give us
a better output order that users would expect in general (with or
without --graph).



  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-26 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-25 23:39 Commit graph not using minimal number of columns Javier Mora
2023-04-25 23:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 10:45   ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-26 16:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 17:35       ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-26 17:43         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-04-27 13:02           ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-27 18:24             ` Junio C Hamano

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