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Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?

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DLDavid Lang <david@lang.hm>
Date
Nov 28, 2012, 00:22 UTC
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
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> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
>> Well... if we added a fractional seconds to a commit, older versions
>> of Git will scream loudly and refuse to work with the new commit. That
>> would create a fork of Git.
>
> So much for that idea, I guess.
>
> Unless..I don't know how git's database representations work.  Are they
> version-stamped in any way?  If so, some slightly painful hackery would
> get around that problem.
>
> I'm being exploratory, here. No proposal to code anything is in the
> offing.
Apologies if this was covered earlier in the thread (I missed the beginning)

remember that git is dealing with timestamps generated across different machines, and since the times are not assumed to be in sync, let alone to the millisecond level, there's not much value to git in that level of presision.

git routinely deals with timestamps that are off by days. If the timestamps are within a minute or so, you are in pretty good shape.

David Lang
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  2. Shawn PearceNov 27, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 27, 2012
  4. Eric S. RaymondNov 27, 2012
  5. Shawn PearceNov 27, 2012
  6. Eric S. RaymondNov 28, 2012
  7. David LangNov 28, 2012
  8. Felipe ContrerasNov 28, 2012
  9. Shawn PearceNov 28, 2012
  10. Jeff KingNov 28, 2012
  11. Jason PyeronNov 28, 2012
  12. Felipe ContrerasNov 28, 2012
  13. Eric S. RaymondNov 28, 2012
  14. Jeff KingNov 28, 2012
  15. Felipe ContrerasNov 28, 2012
  16. Eric S. RaymondNov 28, 2012
  17. Jeff KingNov 28, 2012
  18. Eric S. RaymondNov 28, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2012
  20. Eric S. RaymondNov 28, 2012
  21. David AguilarNov 28, 2012
  22. Andreas EricssonNov 28, 2012
  23. Robin RosenbergDec 5, 2012
  24. James CloosDec 10, 2012
  25. Thomas BergNov 28, 2012
  26. Felipe ContrerasNov 28, 2012
  27. Thomas BergNov 28, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2012
  29. Andreas EricssonNov 28, 2012
  30. Phil HordNov 29, 2012
  31. Jeff KingNov 29, 2012
  32. Eric S. RaymondNov 28, 2012
  33. Felipe ContrerasNov 28, 2012
  34. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2012
  35. Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)Nov 27, 2012
  36. Eric S. RaymondNov 29, 2012
  37. Junio C HamanoNov 29, 2012
  38. Felipe ContrerasNov 29, 2012
  39. Eric S. RaymondNov 29, 2012
  40. Junio C HamanoNov 29, 2012
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