From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:25:42 GMT Subject: Re: git and time Message-ID: <451C4BE6.20407@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060928221237.85837.qmail@web51015.mail.yahoo.com> Matthew L Foster wrote: > --- A Large Angry SCM wrote: > >> Sounds like you're suggesting that Git should not record any timestamps >> at all. After all, Git doesn't need them. > > Yeah kind of, since distributed git doesn't need timestamps and can't guarantee them the only time > that might make any sense to use locally is local commit time. There is no local commit time for things you get from a remote repository. When I wrote "Sounds like you're suggesting that Git should not record any timestamps at all", I meant _you_ don't think Git should record _any_ timestamps since they can't be guaranteed to match the DAG.