Re: git and time

From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 18:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20060927200054.7a49b619.froese@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609270919220.3952@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Matthew L Foster wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps git should record three(+) timestamps, adding when the change was committed into this
> > repository?
> 
> What you CAN do is to connect (in any particular private repository) a 
> _branch_update_ with the time it was done. That is Shawn Pierces "reflog" 
> work - you can track a particular branch _locally_. It's purely local to 
> that _one_ repository, though. It by definition makes no sense anywhere 
> else, and it's not tracking commits, it's literally tracking how branches 
> changed in a local copy.

Well, I would simply look at the filesystem's mtime of the commit object resp. the pack containing the commit. IMHO good enough most of the time.

Ciao, ET.