Re: git and time

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 08:42 UTC
Message-ID: <451A398C.3060800@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vodt2nmft.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Matthew L Foster <mfoster167@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>>> PS Nit: Git doesn't work with changesets, it works with snapshots,
>>> building a directed graph of snapshots. Maybe that is the source of your
>>> confusion
>> It's true I don't know much about git, what is the difference
>> between a changeset and a snapshot?  Are you saying timestamps
>> should be tracked separately or tracked by an scm system built
>> on top of git? Does/should git care about the when of a
>> snapshot?
> 
> I do not know what Jeff meant by snapshot vs changeset, so I
> would not comment on this part.
>

Me neither, but I've seen this distinction before on the mailing-list.

To my mind, a changeset is the patch that brings some form of data from one state (snapshot) to another. In this respect, git is certainly both snapshot- and changeset-based.

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