General question about node ordering about d3-dag HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks for the quick response! The rank operator is exactly what I needed for the ordering. Can't believe I missed it in the api docs.
The date ordering issue was actually far higher priority than lane preference. I think I will tackle the lane operator down the road, and if I do wind up writing a new lane operator that seems generally useful, I'll be sure to submit a PR.

Really appreciate the help.

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No dumb questions, and yes, this is possible! d3-dag is written to be modular, so almost any piece can be swapped out for your own code, but sometimes that might mean a lot of extra work. For your questions it's a mixed bag.

• ordering - the grid operator has an optional rank accessor that can be used to specify how to order things. For your case it should be something like grid().rank(node => node.data.commitTime). The rank need to be a number since typescript doesn't have a good way of specifying orderability, but you should be able to convert to a unix timestamp if its in some other format.
• lane - the lane assignment is also its own functionality that can be pulled out. and updated as grid().lane(...). However, lane operators are more difficult to write. From your description, you probably want to use something like the single sided lane indexer here. However, the tweaks necessary to get the main branch to always be lane 0 (1), might necessitate rewriting lane, which is most of the layout anyway and therefore might be easy to just spin everything up yourself. However, if you can think of a nice way to upstream the change in a way that's pretty general, or builds nicely off of the existing operators I'd welcome it.

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