diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 3228db9af6..3356ede9a2 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -2790,6 +2790,12 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, struct s
 	if (revs->diffopt.objfind)
 		revs->simplify_history = 0;
 
+	if (revs->line_level_traverse) {
+		if (want_ancestry(revs))
+			revs->limited = 1;
+		revs->topo_order = 1;
+	}
+
 	if (revs->topo_order && !generation_numbers_enabled(the_repository))
 		revs->limited = 1;
 
@@ -2809,11 +2815,6 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, struct s
 
 	revs->diffopt.abbrev = revs->abbrev;
 
-	if (revs->line_level_traverse) {
-		revs->limited = 1;
-		revs->topo_order = 1;
-	}
-
 	diff_setup_done(&revs->diffopt);
 
 	grep_commit_pattern_type(GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED,