From: David Lang Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:47:27 GMT Subject: Re: git and time Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Sean wrote: >> 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. would it? remember that a pach could be merged to many trees in any order. which merge date do you want to know about? David Lang