Re: [Xenomai] cgit repository modification times

[Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>]

On 26/11/2013 15:05, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On 11/26/2013 02:59 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
>> On 26/11/2013 14:50, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>> On 11/26/2013 02:40 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've noticed that the new cgit web interface to the git repositories
>>>> does not display the correct modification times for the repository in
>>>> the repository list.  I don't know what may cause this, the displayed
>>>> times seems completely arbitrary to me.
>>>
>>> Maybe that is because the time displayed in the repository list is not
>>> the modification time, but the idle time, as the title line indicates?
>>
>> Sorry, wrong choice of words on my side. I believe that the idle time is
>> defined as (current time) - (modification time). Isn't it?
> 
>>
>> Still, for example, the xenomai-force repository has two branches:
>> "master" and "next", for which cgit shows an "Age" (which I believe
>> should be interpreted in the same way as "Idle") of respectively 24
>> hours and 3 weeks.  The "Idle" field in the repository list reports 11 days.
> 
> It seems you are mixing the time when the last push occurred with the 
> time when the last commit occurred, with git the two are not necessarily 
> correlated. If you look at other projects using cgit, kernel.org for 
> instance, you will find the same disparities.
> 
> In the case of Xenomai, most of the repositories appear to have been 
> pushed 11 days ago because this is the time when the repositories were 
> cloned from the old xenomai server to the new xenomai server.

I know, but how is it possible that a changeset has been pushed before
being committed?  I believe that the difference is that gitweb (which
was used before) reports the time of the last push affecting any of the
branches, while cgit reporst the time of the last push affecting the
master branch only.  In my opinion, the gitweb behavior is more
consistent with the git data model, but it is not a big deal.

I like to peek at xenomai development from time to time and a quick view
on the last time changes are pushed to the repositories was handy, but
not essential.

Cheers,
Daniele