From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:12:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?
Message-ID: <20121128001231.GA27971@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJo=hJtOqRHcjWH1F71Qc5zvPkUAe+u1RrcC2pt_xQwLSUY0yg@mail.gmail.com>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
> Well... if we added a fractional seconds to a commit, older versions
> of Git will scream loudly and refuse to work with the new commit. That
> would create a fork of Git.

So much for that idea, I guess.  

Unless..I don't know how git's database representations work.  Are they
version-stamped in any way?  If so, some slightly painful hackery would
get around that problem.

I'm being exploratory, here. No proposal to code anything is in the
offing.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>