Re: Change set based shallow clone

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 9, 2006, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20060909211420.GA17339@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pvgwxrc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 02:11:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The trouble Linus illustrated is that in a global project you
> cannot rely on timestamps always being correct.  You can use
> them as HINT, but you need to be prepared to do sensible things
> when some people screw up the time.

Right, I forgot about the unreliability of the timestamps. Thanks for the explanation!

-Peff

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