Re: RE: Date handling.

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 14, 2005, 19:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20050414194626.GB22699@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <B8E391BBE9FE384DAA4C5C003888BE6F03457AE6@scsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>

Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:42:28PM CEST, I got a letter where "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> told me that...

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> >I'd prefer not to lose the information. If someone has committed a
> >change at 2am, I like to know that it was 2am for _them_. It helps me
> >decide where to look first for the cause of problems. :)
> 
> I'd think the 8:00am-before-the-first-coffee checkins would be the
> most worrying :-)
> 
> >It also helps disambiguate certain comments, especially those involving
> >words or phrases such as "yesterday" or "this afternoon".
> 
> This is a very good point ... but this still has problems with the
> "git is a filesystem, not a SCM" mantra.  Timezone comments don't
> belong in the git inode.

So, when commit is done in a given time of day, a "*YAWN*" line should be automatically appended to the log message. ;-)

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