Re: git and time

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 30, 2006, 17:36 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609301033460.3952@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pupizix.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > Agreed.  I've been missing such a command and have wanted to add
> > one but it wasn't important enough to me to actually code it.  :)
> 
> Everything you said in your message sounds sane and makes sense
> to me.  Now we have to find a sucker^Wvolunteer to implement it
> ;-).

Ehh. As far as I can see it's 
 - a damn hard thing to do efficiently
 - essentially exactly the same problem you already solved with "git 
   describe"

In other words, I think you could make git describe do it, by simply making it parse not just all tags, but also walking the branch log.

		Linus

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