Re: git-log chronology in gitlog-to-changelog

[Jim Meyering]

William Pursell <address@hidden> wrote:
> I recall having an issue with git 1.4 in which
> git log did not produce correct chronology,
> and rpm would reject ChangeLogs generated from
> git log because they were out of order.  I cannot
> duplicate that problem with modern git, but I
> notice in the mailing list archive some concern
> about gitlog-to-changelog supporting older forms
> of git.  Is this of any concern?  The problem
> is easy to resolve by using git rev-list
> to generate commits in the correct order.

IMHO, no.
There's no point in trying to support git older than 1.5.1
which is mentioned in the comments.