Re: git-rev-list in local commit order

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: May 15, 2005, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID: <1116186533.11872.152.camel@tglx>
In-Reply-To: <4127.10.10.10.24.1116107046.squirrel@linux1>

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 17:44 -0400, Sean wrote:

> Attached is a preliminary hackish patch to sort git-rev-list in local
> commit order.

+unsigned long sha1_local_date(const unsigned char *sha1)
+{
+       struct stat st;
+       if (find_sha1_file(sha1, &st))
+               return st.st_mtime;
+       return 0;
+}

Do you really want to base workflow and history information on file times ?

File times are local and completely error prone in distributed environments.

tglx