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Re: bug in name-rev on linux-2.6 repo?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Apr 22, 2010, 18:20 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.2.00.1004221119290.26046@i5.linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Hi Ted, [ nip ]
> 
> It seems that the committer date is set to coincide with the author
> date for ext4 patches, which breaks some assumptions by git that each
> commit has a later or equal committer date than all parents (modulo
> some skew).

Argh. Yeah, that's just _evil_. Admittedly, git should never care, but in practice it does, because doing the whole graph walk can be _very_ expensive. So git wants to think that the committer dates at least have _some_ real-life significance.

		Linus
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Message 11 of 13 in “bug in name-rev on linux-2.6 repo?”
  1. maximilian attemsApr 21, 2010
  2. Tay Ray ChuanApr 22, 2010
  3. maximilian attemsApr 22, 2010
  4. Jonathan NiederApr 22, 2010
  5. Andreas SchwabApr 22, 2010
  6. Jeff KingApr 22, 2010
  7. Jeff KingApr 22, 2010
  8. Jonathan NiederApr 22, 2010
  9. Jeff KingApr 22, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederApr 22, 2010
  11. Linus TorvaldsApr 22, 2010
  12. tytso@mit.eduApr 24, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederApr 22, 2010

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