Magit 20171117.514, Git 2.15.0, Emacs 25.3.1, gnu/linux
master should come before or after origin/master, but master clobbers origin/master. see screenshot.
observation: this does not happen on latest tag: 2.11.0

That's a feature. See the end of https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Log-Buffer.html.
Oh, I see. Is there a way to bring back the old behaviour?
Is there a way to bring back the old behaviour?
Why did I expect this to be the follow up question :wink:
No there is not. Please try it for a while. Who knows, maybe you will start liking it.
No sweat @tarsius, I know that you have a difficult job ahead of you in maintaining magit and is very difficult to account for the various users preferences. Surely I'll try the new way and I can already start to see the benefits. Thank you very much for mantaining the package.
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Why did I expect this to be the follow up question :wink:
No there is not. Please try it for a while. Who knows, maybe you will start liking it.