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Re: [Q] Determing if a commit is reachable from the HEAD ?

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David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
Date
Jan 21, 2012, 04:58 UTC
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 04:04:50PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org> writes:
> 
> > Hmm, I thought I'd convinced myself that this was possible.  Now, I
> > can't come up with a way of doing it that doesn't involve improper
> > commits with earlier timestamps than their parents.
> 
> I'd actually want to see a way to do so that *does* involve timestamp
> skew.

Sorry, I guess I shouldn't tried this with a recent version of git. I can't cause this, and it looks like there's some pretty sophisticated stuff in there to deal with this.

David
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