From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: git and time Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:42:52 +0200 Message-ID: <451A398C.3060800@op5.se> References: <20060926233321.GA17084@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20060927002745.15344.qmail@web51005.mail.yahoo.com> <7vodt2nmft.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthew L Foster , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 27 10:43:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSV0e-0007lm-Qw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:43:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750865AbWI0Im7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:42:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750858AbWI0Im7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:42:59 -0400 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:15533 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750864AbWI0Im6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:42:58 -0400 Received: by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix, from userid 588) id B07846BD7E; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:42:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on linux-server1.op5.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.4 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44FEE6BD7C; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:42:53 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vodt2nmft.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Matthew L Foster writes: > >>> PS Nit: Git doesn't work with changesets, it works with snapshots, >>> building a directed graph of snapshots. Maybe that is the source of your >>> confusion >> It's true I don't know much about git, what is the difference >> between a changeset and a snapshot? Are you saying timestamps >> should be tracked separately or tracked by an scm system built >> on top of git? Does/should git care about the when of a >> snapshot? > > I do not know what Jeff meant by snapshot vs changeset, so I > would not comment on this part. > Me neither, but I've seen this distinction before on the mailing-list. To my mind, a changeset is the patch that brings some form of data from one state (snapshot) to another. In this respect, git is certainly both snapshot- and changeset-based. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231