Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes:

On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Jed Brown wrote:

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Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes:

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Perhaps if there arrows were flipped the confusion could be reduced?

What do you mean by "flipped"?

instead of (a) ---> (b)

use: (a) <--- (b)

The arrow represend 'parent' relationship anyway

This is a perfect reflection of the data structure, but I think a lot of people intuitively think of the flow rather than dependency relationships. Also, having the arrowhead at the new merge commits connotes the ordering of events (or that's my perception). Does anyone else think it would be better with arrows pointed the other way?

The confusion with forward facing arrows occurs when its interpreted as 'data flow' or something that has 'time-factor' associated with it.