From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:39:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Additional merge-base tests
Message-ID: <200607051039.53288.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xn9gjh5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 23:15, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > We could introduce a time.maximumSkew variable, and just walk only 
> > that much further when traversing the commits.
> 
> We could have had "commit generation number" in the commit
> object header, and use that instead of commit timestamps for
> these traversal purposes.

Isn't this "commit generation number" information that can be
regenerated on the fly, i.e. a perfect fit for data to be stored
in a persistant cache, e.g. in ".git/tmp/virtual-commit-timestamps"?

Josef