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Revision 5f0883381054b796b643dcff974435633eed8a79 authored by elliottcable on 01 June 2013, 04:53:19 UTC, committed by elliottcable on 04 June 2013, 15:23:43 UTC 
rev-list: add --authorship-order alternative ordering
 
--date-order is an excellent alternative to --topo-order if you want a feel for
the *actual history*, chronologically, of your project. I use it often, with
--graph as well; it's a great way to get an overview of a project's recent
development history.

However, in a project that rebases various in-development topic-branches often,
it gets hard to demonstrate a *chronological history* of changes to the
codebase, as this always “resets” the COMMITTER_DATE (which --date-order uses)
to the time the rebase happened; which often means ‘last time all of the
topic-branches were rebased on the latest fixes in master.’

Thus, I've added an --authorship-order version of --date-order, which relies
upon the AUTHOR_DATE instead of the COMMITTER_DATE; this means that old commits
will continue to show up chronologically in-order despite rebasing.
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Tip revision: 5f0883381054b796b643dcff974435633eed8a79 authored by elliottcable on 01 June 2013, 04:53:19 UTC
rev-list: add --authorship-order alternative ordering
Tip revision: 5f08833
git-merge-resolve.sh 
#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2005 Linus Torvalds
# Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano
#
# Resolve two trees, using enhanced multi-base read-tree.

# The first parameters up to -- are merge bases; the rest are heads.
bases= head= remotes= sep_seen=
for arg
do
	case ",$sep_seen,$head,$arg," in
	*,--,)
		sep_seen=yes
		;;
	,yes,,*)
		head=$arg
		;;
	,yes,*)
		remotes="$remotes$arg "
		;;
	*)
		bases="$bases$arg "
		;;
	esac
done

# Give up if we are given two or more remotes -- not handling octopus.
case "$remotes" in
?*' '?*)
	exit 2 ;;
esac

# Give up if this is a baseless merge.
if test '' = "$bases"
then
	exit 2
fi

git update-index -q --refresh
git read-tree -u -m --aggressive $bases $head $remotes || exit 2
echo "Trying simple merge."
if result_tree=$(git write-tree 2>/dev/null)
then
	exit 0
else
	echo "Simple merge failed, trying Automatic merge."
	if git-merge-index -o git-merge-one-file -a
	then
		exit 0
	else
		exit 1
	fi
fi
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