Re: git and time

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2006, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID: <200609282236.37513.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609281003070.3952@g5.osdl.org>

torsdag 28 september 2006 19:11 skrev Linus Torvalds:

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> The time that git records is purely a random number. It's a random number
> that _humans_ can choose to care about or not, and it's a random number
> that git itself uses only in the sense of "ok, I've got two equal choices,
> let's toss a coin to select which one I'll look at next", BUT IT IS A
> RANDOM NUMBER.

I'd think of it as comment, about as (un)reliable as the author field or the descriptive free-form comment people enter when they commit. It's not even necessarily the local system time if GIT_AUTHOR_DATE has been set.

-- robin

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