Re: git and time

From: Matthew L Foster <mfoster167@yahoo.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 21:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20060927211643.82491.qmail@web51015.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609271347060.3952@g5.osdl.org>

--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> The fact is, in a distributed system, you can _never_ make sense of 
> "time". Just live with it. That's basic "distributed programming 101", and 
> it's the one thing every such course should start with on the very first 
> day.

I agree which is exactly why I think git should conceptually prefer a repo's _local_ time.

Commit/merge times could be specific to each repo and not generally distributed?  
 
-Matt

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