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Re: merge time

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MFMatthew L Foster <mfoster167@yahoo.com>
Date
Jul 30, 2007, 01:11 UTC
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--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> Well, there i sno "wrong" time. There are just "different" times. The only 
> thing git really tracks is not actually the time (that's purely for human 
> consumption), but the *relationship* between commits. So git really very 
> fundmanetally just tracks things like "commit X was the parent of commit 
> Y", and the time is really immaterial.

Is it possible for git and/or gitweb to know that commits X and Y are descendents of merge C and use the time merge C happened locally for both instead of using the time commits X and Y were created? It seems to me changes showing up as being made long before they really were merged is a very serious problem verification wise but if everyone is using git then perhaps it's not as bad as I think. What happens when security bug fix Z errantly seems to be in v2.6.22 but in reality its not?

Thanks for the responses, -Matt

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