Commits shown out of order, top date advances too quickly when displaying branching development

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. View a git log with entries out of date order (happens wherever
branching is used - extensively in our case).

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The date at the top of the screen does not match the date shown in the
bottom slider. The date in the bottom slider appears to follow the commit
sequence, jumping forward and backwards in time, whereas the top date
always increases. On our project the top date advanced at about double
time, ending with a date more than a year in the future.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

OS: Debian Lenny
gource: 0.14 (from deb)
git-core: 1:1.6.3.1-1

Please provide any additional information below.

Could git log --date-order be used to ensure commits are chronologically
ordered and fix this?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by interfe...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2009 at 1:24