From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:21:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit Message-ID: <1115932872.11872.86.camel@tglx> In-Reply-To: <4776.10.10.10.24.1115932163.squirrel@linux1> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 17:09 -0400, Sean wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 4:47 pm, Thomas Gleixner said: > > > As I said before timestamps can be a horrid source of information. Also > > if you keep a list of commits merges and head forwards in timed order it > > is simple to read the repository history, but in case of corruption you > > have to reconstruct it manually. There is no way to do so with the > > information available. > > > > Repository id's can be lost, but are simple to replace as they are > > recorded in the commit blob. > > And the time is recorded on the commit blob too. How do you enforce correct timestamps ? tglx Received: from simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (simmts5.bellnexxia.net [206.47.199.163]) by mail.tglx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623FE65C003 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 23:09:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from linux1 ([69.156.111.46]) by simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050512210923.CCQN11606.simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@linux1>; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:09:23 -0400