From: Matthew L Foster Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:43:16 GMT Subject: Re: git and time Message-ID: <20060928194316.42986.qmail@web51004.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: --- Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Matthew L Foster wrote: > > > It should be possible to export git data, through say a web interface, > > in a such a way that local time order is consistent with commit order. > > Why? - So exported data is never/rarely in an inconsistent state with respect to commit order and local time order (data integrity). - To encourage people to care about/prefer local commit time rather than remote creation/emailed time - So people that user repo X, or binaries from repo X, know when bug fix Y/fancy new feature Z was committed/merged locally - In many situations "history" is incomplete without local commit time. If a company has a new driver they would probably prefer to know when the main kernel repo has it, not when they created/emailed it or when a remote repo committed it. -Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com