From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:38:31 GMT
Subject: Re: hgweb and gitweb: Commit times displayed incorrectly
Message-ID: <20050614173831.GR26633@waste.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050614162541.GA27165@intevation.de>

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:25:41PM +0200, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> * Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@gorzow.mm.pl> [20050614 17:45]:
> > Who is wrong there, especially with hours count?
> > Here it's 17:43 +0200
> > 
> > hgweb:
> > *16 hours ago: *
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/hg/?cmd=changelog;rev=30069
> 
> > gitweb:
> > /11 hours ago/
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=log;h=e2c16499515aa044676a14b97a1b8a35f879152a
> 
> > My clone:
> > author Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:52:36 -0700
> > committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:58:58 -0700
> 
> Both are correct.
> 
> hgweb uses the timestamp of the "author" line, gitweb uses the
> timestamp of the "commiter" line. Mercurial (hg) doesn't distinguish
> author and commiter, therefore it uses the earlier time.

I may change this. One of the goals here is to have enough information
to generate git-compatible exports. Possibly through an extended
version of hgweb (hgitweb?).

So I'm eventually going to preserve both fields. The question is how.
Do we want separate author and committer fields in Mercurial?

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