Re: git and time

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 23:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20060927230256.GD21839@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609271545140.3952@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Matthew L Foster wrote:
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> > So the separate action of replication is not tracked?
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> Correct. Replication without changes is a no-op.

I think it could be reasonably argued that knowing when the head(s) of your public repository on a mirror of kernel.org changed to a given value is useful. Especially when there is a mirroring lag.

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Shawn.

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