From: Edgar Toernig Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:00:54 GMT Subject: Re: git and time Message-ID: <20060927200054.7a49b619.froese@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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.