From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 21:30:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git-rev-list in local commit order
Message-ID: <1116192629.11872.201.camel@tglx>
In-Reply-To: <1273.10.10.10.24.1116192097.squirrel@linux1>

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 17:21 -0400, Sean wrote:
> > Time is illusion.
> 
> What you're missing is that time is only important in this case to deduce
> the relative age of each commit LOCALLY.   The intention of this proposal
> is not to allow time comparison of commits between repositories. 


I do not want to compare times. I want to figure out workflows and
histories between different repositories.

>  In fact,
> you'll see if you look closely, that you don't need to do that in order to
> solve the stated problem of sorting the commits by the time they were
> merged LOCALLY.

Even LOCALLY is no guarantee for correct timestamps.


tglx