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Re: merge time

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 30, 2007, 03:09 UTC
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Matthew L Foster wrote:
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> > but if git did what you wanted it would show every commit with the time of 
> > the merge, and that wouldn't help you anyway.
>  
> Actually that is exactly what I want. I want to know what local time change X and Y (and all
> changes) were merged locally.

You misunderstand. It would do so both for the newly merged commits *and* for the old commits. Because _you_ think the "new" commits got merged, but it's logically exactly equivalent to saying that the *old* commits got merged.

So now *every* single commit would get the timestamp of the merge.
See? It would be pointless.
			Linus
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