From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:23:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121128032337.GB1669@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121128011750.GA23498@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> But I really wonder if anybody actually cares about adding sub-second
> timestamp support, or if it is merely "because SVN has it".
There's actually one possible other reason to care. 1-second granularity
isn't quite fine enough to guarantee that a (committer, timestamp)
pair is a unique key. 1 microsecond granularity would be.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-28 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-27 20:48 Millisecond precision in timestamps? Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-27 21:41 ` Shawn Pearce
2012-11-27 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-27 23:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-27 23:49 ` Shawn Pearce
2012-11-28 0:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-28 0:22 ` David Lang
2012-11-28 0:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 1:07 ` Shawn Pearce
2012-11-28 1:17 ` Jeff King
2012-11-28 1:29 ` Jason Pyeron
2012-11-28 1:42 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 3:23 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2012-11-28 3:30 ` Jeff King
2012-11-28 3:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 3:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-28 4:07 ` Jeff King
2012-11-28 4:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-28 7:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-28 7:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-28 8:04 ` David Aguilar
2012-11-28 10:14 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-12-05 23:37 ` Robin Rosenberg
2012-12-10 20:56 ` James Cloos
2012-11-28 8:19 ` Thomas Berg
2012-11-28 8:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 9:10 ` Thomas Berg
[not found] ` <E4C993F4-B7A4-4CB6-A9EA-BFE98BE3A381@gmail.com>
2012-11-29 6:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-29 7:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-29 7:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-29 10:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-29 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-29 19:02 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-28 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-28 10:10 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-11-29 19:14 ` Phil Hord
2012-11-29 20:01 ` Jeff King
2012-11-28 1:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-28 1:36 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 2:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-27 21:44 ` Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)
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