Re: git and time

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 03:43 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <20060927033459.GA27622@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:34:59 -0400 Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> Right. So you really want to know not "when did this commit enter this
> repo" but rather "when did this head/branch first contain this commit"
> (since there may be multiple branches within a repo).

Even though it's being a bit pedantic, I have to disagree with you here. The question the user is asking is exactly, "When did this commit enter _this_ repo?".

Because of the design of git, such a question must be converted into a question regarding reflogs and head/branch values etc... But the user doesn't care anything about all that. They're just interested in the date/time the commit was published in the repository in question, not the date time the commit was originally created in some distant repo.

Sean