From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:09:01 GMT
Subject: Re: merge time
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707292007440.4161@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <686661.84825.qm@web51011.mail.re2.yahoo.com>



On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Matthew L Foster wrote:
> 
> > 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