From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:09:18 GMT
Subject: Re: git and time
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609271105430.3952@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060927200054.7a49b619.froese@gmx.de>



On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Edgar Toernig wrote:
> 
> Well, I would simply look at the filesystem's mtime of the commit object
> resp. the pack containing the commit.  IMHO good enough most of the time.

Nope. The moment you repack, you're toast. And if you don't repack, please 
don't use large repositories.

Here's a real-world example: in the week since 2.6.18 was released, the 
kernel has gotten over twenty _thousand_ new objects. If you don't repack, 
you'll have lost about 40MB of diskspace. It adds up.

So yes, mtime works for a bit. And then it stops working ;)

		Linus