Re: git and time

>> 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?
>>
>> Perhaps my question is directed more toward gitweb.cgi, it seems to me the timestamp of when a
>> snapshot was merged into this repository should somehow be tracked and that is what gitweb.cgi
>> should default to display. For example, if someone wants to know if security bugfix X was merged
>> into linus' kernel tree they also want to know when that happened, don't they?
>
> You are right that a "Merged Date:" in gitweb would be useful information to
> show for each commit, but it's not straightforward given the design of git.