Re: git and time

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 28, 2006, 22:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609290032440.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060928222935.66578.qmail@web51012.mail.yahoo.com>

Matt,

what exactly are you trying to achieve here? Is this a sort of contest who can have the longest thread on git@vger.kernel.org?

If you really want to understand why git does not rely on timestamps, and why it should not, and why you can still be happy nevertheless, there are enough answers in this thread.

Hth, Dscho

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