From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:15:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Round-down years in "years+months" relative date view
Message-ID: <20090828171552.GA6821@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0908281000l41c862f9ye52da7251014c4f7@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 07:00:59PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 17:02, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > But that's the point: you can't do that without a race condition. Your
> > test gets a sense of the current time, then runs git, which checks the
> > current time again. How many seconds elapsed between the two checks?
> 
> How _many_ do you need?

I don't understand what you're trying to say. My point is that if you
are checking results to a one-second precision, you need to know whether
zero seconds elapsed, or one second, or two seconds, or whatever to get
a consistent result.

-Peff