Re: git and time

> As Shawn said in a nearby thread, in a public and prominent
> repository like kernel.org repository it may sometimes be
> interesting and useful to know when each commit became available
> on each branch.  I am reasonably sure that it would not however
> make gitweb output easier to read to order its output by that
> timestamp.   Linus pulls from subsystem maintainers all the time
> and one pull may bring in dozens of commits, and they will get
> the same timestamp if you did so.  Actually it is worse than
> that.  He tends to batch, so he would have many such pulls and
> patch applications in his private repository, perhaps over a few
> hour, but the result will be pushed out to kernel.org with one
> push operation.  To show the "truthful" time, your gitweb would
> give the timestamp of that push operation for hundreds of
> commits pushed out during that operation.
> 
> I do not personally think that would be useful at all.  And I
> happen to know how expensive to teach gitweb to produce such an
> output, so I would not seriously suggest anybody to try it.