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Re: Does content provenance matter?

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 7, 2012, 23:12 UTC
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Kelly Dean <kellydeanch@yahoo.com> writes:
> The basic question is, if provenance doesn't matter, then why does a
> git commit record its parent(s)? Why not omit this information, and
> figure it out at search time (by looking at all commits with older
> timestamps),

Because it is not possible to do in reliable way in face of parallel concurrent branchy development by multiple developers... some of which can have badly set clock.

Also, multiple merges of the same branch.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
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  1. Kelly DeanMay 5, 2012
  2. Thomas RastMay 7, 2012
  3. Kelly DeanMay 7, 2012
  4. PJ WeisbergMay 7, 2012
  5. Kelly DeanMay 7, 2012
  6. Andrew ArdillMay 8, 2012
  7. Philip OakleyMay 8, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2012
  10. Jakub NarebskiMay 7, 2012

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