From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:33:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] commit: use a priority queue in merge base functions
Message-ID: <7vy5kws5jn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120830130327.GB5687@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> The script originally comes from here:
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/33566/focus=33852
>
> and the discussion implies that the AUTHOR_DATEs were added to avoid a
> race condition with the timestamps. But why would that ever have worked?

I do not see how AUTHOR_DATE would affect anything there, either,
other than to give reprodusible object names.  The test only sets
committer-date upfront, so without setting author-date, you would
still get different object names on commits.  Which suggests me that
there may be something that tiebreaks based on object names?