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Re: Finding file revisions

From
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
Apr 28, 2005, 13:09 UTC
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<1114693800.27227.115.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504271506290.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Remember: time is not a nice linear stream.
Time is neither nice nor linear. Time is a complete illusion.

If _any_ of your tools are using the time for _any_ purpose other than to display it to the user along with the author/committer information, then you are probably making a mistake.

Relative time does not represent the revision history of a distributed system which supports merges. Any correlation you think you see is _purely_ a coincidence.

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dwmw2
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  5. Chris MasonApr 27, 2005
  6. Simon FowlerApr 28, 2005
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  10. Kay SieversApr 28, 2005
  11. Tony LuckApr 28, 2005
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  13. Kay SieversApr 28, 2005
  14. Chris MasonApr 28, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsApr 28, 2005
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  18. Chris MasonApr 28, 2005
  19. David WoodhouseApr 28, 2005
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  21. Thomas GleixnerApr 27, 2005
  22. Linus TorvaldsApr 28, 2005
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