Refined-github: Order commits by commit date
GitHub orders commits by author date instead of commit date:
https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-commits-in-the-wrong-order/
https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/386#issuecomment-225763691 (title of this issue is sorta wrong)
I haven't looked at how hard it would be to fix this with refined-github. If I find a reasonable way to do it, would you accept a PR for it?
zbjornson
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I think it's rare and unimportant enough to justify making an API call for the current branch to get each commit's date.
fregante
on 4 May 2018
I don't think I understand your comment. You mean it's rare and unimportant (😢 on the latter), so it's not worth making an API call all the time? What about as an optional feature that defaulted to "off"?
A much easier feature to add would be putting small numbers beside the commits to indicate their true order, if they're not in the right order already.
zbjornson
on 5 May 2018
Sorting or numbering still requires an API call. “Off-by-default” features are better off as separate extensions
fregante
on 5 May 2018
If we were to reorder commits, I'll prefer ordering by parent in the Git graph and using dates only with multiple parents. This is a long-time issue I have with GitHub pull requests which I've created test reports for and communicated with GitHub. They are unwilling to change it. When you have a PR and interactively rebase your branch history and reorder commits they get reordered in some places on GitHub, but not in others. I don't see the benefit in switching the date, though. Committer date is better when ordering by date IMHO.
hkdobrev
on 5 May 2018
Closing as per my first comment. Perhaps Mottie has a userscript for this
fregante
on 29 Jun 2018
graingert
on 18 Nov 2019
@graingert Is this about opening a new issue to discuss what I've suggested in https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/issues/1294#issuecomment-386797552?
hkdobrev
on 18 Nov 2019
I think they did it, but only for PRs: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-07-14-pull-request-commits-now-ordered-chronologically/
fregante
on 14 Jul 2020
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If we were to reorder commits, I'll prefer ordering by parent in the Git graph and using dates only with multiple parents. This is a long-time issue I have with GitHub pull requests which I've created test reports for and communicated with GitHub. They are unwilling to change it. When you have a PR and interactively rebase your branch history and reorder commits they get reordered in some places on GitHub, but not in others. I don't see the benefit in switching the date, though. Committer date is better when ordering by date IMHO.