On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:08:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: > > This will (and does) do exactly what I want. I'll also read into the > > above a request that you want it in forward date order. 8) > > No, I actually don't _think_ I care. In many ways I'm more used to > "reverse date order", because that's usually how you view a changelog > (with a pager, and most recent changes at the top). > > Which one makes sense when asking me to merge? I don't know, and I don't > think it really even matters, but maybe we can add a "for now" to whatever > decision you end up coming to?
It's trivial to change - it's either sort -n or sort -nr ! I'll pick the reverse format so that we generate the changelog in the order which people have come to expect from our previous set of tools. Consistency with existing practises is a good thing at this point. -- Russell King - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
