Re: git and time

From: Matthew L Foster <mfoster167@yahoo.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2006, 19:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20060928191816.76466.qmail@web51014.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609281043380.3952@g5.osdl.org>

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

>  - it means that the -same- exact project, when looked at frm two 
>    different sites that mirror it, have totally different times. In other 
>    words, the times have become pointless for something like gitweb.

Mirrored git repos probably should use the same timestamp, e.g. the "master" or "private" git server's local time. Replicated repos have a delay compared to when you made changes in your private repo, that is ok, replication is not what makes commit order inconsistent with time, it's the act of pulling/merging from a server with misconfigured time and gitweb.cgi trusting "creation time", right? Or is replication the same thing as merging/pulling?

-Matt

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