From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:14:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Additional merge-base tests Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <44AAF49F.6090008@gmail.com> A Large Angry SCM wrote: > It works[*] and it does what using the timestamp was trying to do. > Namely, work from "more recent" (or "closer") commits toward "older" (or > "farther") commits until you've gone past the point you care about. > > It's a little late to be changing the structure of a commit and you'd > have to deal with some size/scale issues, but it's do-able. A better > idea may be to generate and keep the generation number on a per > repository basis, and you'd be able to work around changing grafts. What about timestamp = MAX(now(), timestamps of parents) idea, which doesn't need changing the structure of a commit? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git