Re: git and time

From: Matthew L Foster <mfoster167@yahoo.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20060927180147.33024.qmail@web51009.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <451A8AD9.2010107@op5.se>

> Because git doesn't care about timestamps. It stores them as comments 
> (albeit auto-formatted comments) and relies on the dependency chain to 
> provide history.

Ok, the word "history" in the context of git primarily means the order of changes not the when? Would it be a conceptual or technical issue for git to directly track the local time of merges/changesets?

-Matt

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