From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:20:34 GMT Subject: Re: bug in name-rev on linux-2.6 repo? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100422162504.GA4913@progeny.tock> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > 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