Re: git and time

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 27, 2006, 18:10 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609271109510.3952@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060927180147.33024.qmail@web51009.mail.yahoo.com>

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Matthew L Foster wrote:

> 
> Ok, the word "history" in the context of git primarily means the order of changes not the when?
> Would it be a conceptual or technical issue for git to directly track the local time of
> merges/changesets?

True merges _get_ tracked - they are commits too (they just have multiple parents).

But it's only the time the merge was done that gets tracked, not the time the merge was then pushed out to somebody else.

		Linus

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