Re: git and time

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 26, 2006, 23:32 UTC
Message-ID: <efcdaq$hld$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060926232316.98065.qmail@web51009.mail.yahoo.com>

Matthew L Foster wrote:

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> After seeing how git currently accepts a remote repository's timestamp
> it occurred to me that git should probably instead prefer the time
> a particular changeset was committed to _this_ repository. Perhaps
> I don't know enough about git but it seems to me the important
> information is  when a particular changeset was committed to this
> repository, all other remote/sub/parent repositories' timestamps
> are secondary (or at least should be tracked separately).

First, the information you want is contained in reflog. Dates the head tip got the specified value.

Second, git cannot rewrite commits (and commits contain timestamp) when fetching commit from remote repository for performance reasons.

Third, git uses timestams as heuristics, but relies on parent information.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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