But the recent commits that I was referring to are shown the same whether --date-order or not.
Sorry, --date-order is the default, commit timestamp order. I meant --author-date-order, author timestamp order. Summarized:
$ git log commit 3951c4de5af427b204b77ae484fbd8175ed07842 Merge: 7da409f3b5 9e091d2027 Date: Sat Jan 4 07:58:30 2020 -0600 commit 7da409f3b53b4d2607b4551b059abb69ad3ad33b Date: Thu Jan 2 17:22:08 2020 +0800 commit 9e091d2027a42fbec14555ae98c76e7579cd8b8e Author: Mateusz Szafoni <raide...@railab.me> Date: Sat Jan 4 09:44:00 2020 -0300 $ git log --author-date-order commit 3951c4de5af427b204b77ae484fbd8175ed07842 Merge: 7da409f3b5 9e091d2027 Date: Sat Jan 4 07:58:30 2020 -0600 commit 9e091d2027a42fbec14555ae98c76e7579cd8b8e Date: Sat Jan 4 09:44:00 2020 -0300 commit 7da409f3b53b4d2607b4551b059abb69ad3ad33b Date: Thu Jan 2 17:22:08 2020 +0800