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Re: Fix interesting git-rev-list corner case

From
RARyan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date
Jul 30, 2005, 00:11 UTC
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<20050730001158.GF32263@mythryan2.michonline.com>
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:50:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> This corner-case was triggered by a kernel commit that was not in date
> order, due to a misconfigured time zone that made the commit appear three
> hours older than it was.

Maybe it'd make sense to have the commits refuse to add a commit when it would be younger than one of it's parents?

I suppose that only really fixes one direction of the other problem, though.

-- 
Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere
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