Re: git and time

From: Matthew L Foster <mfoster167@yahoo.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2006, 01:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20060929014430.44203.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060929002748.GA11055@thunk.org>

--- Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> Git mirroring takes place using the same pushing and pulling that are
> used with multiple repositories.  That's why if Linus does a huge
> amount of work over the period of a day or two in his private
> repository, and then publishes it master.kernel.org, the "local" time
> on master.kernel.org will be the time when they are pushed to
> master.kernel.org, because it's done via the same operation as any
> other repository push or pull.
> 
> That's what everyone has been trying to tell you for this entire
> thread....

Ok, I was wondering about that. In your example above the internally unnecessary timestamp will be from Linus' private repo, not master.kernel.org's? Even now knowing replication = merge/push/pull I still think it worthwile for local commit time to be effiently tracked locally and/or if already available in the local ref-log used by things like gitweb.cgi if feasible but I might be the only one that cares this much about time. Gitweb.cgi currently relies at least display/visually on those internally unnecessary and potentially misleading timestamps...

-Matt

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