Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> > > If a commit in a sequence of linear history has a non-monotonically > increasing commit timestamp, git name-rev will not properly name the > commit. > > However, if you use --annotate-stdin then the commit does actually get > picked up and named properly. IIRC, this is to be expected. When preparing to answer --annotate-stdin request, the command has to dig down to the root of the history, which would be too expensive in some repositories and wants to stop traversal early when it knows particular commits it needs to describe. Dscho? I think this is pretty much a fundamental part of the initial version added by bd321bcc (Add git-name-rev, 2005-10-26) and kept that way to this day, I think.
