Re: [PATCH] object name: introduce ':::<oneline prefix>' notation

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 24, 2007, 01:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20070224015731.GA10198@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702240248210.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 02:49:31AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > door for :? to find the oldest such match (though I'm not sure if it 
> > would be by topology or date).
> By topology makes no sense with more than one root.

Agreed, but by date might not make sense if you have clock skew. I had assumed your patch for "youngest" was by distance to ref, but I suppose that doesn't make sense if you are looking over a set of possibly unconnected refs. So I think trusting the clock may be the only sensible thing.

-Peff