From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Kristofer Karlsson <krka@spotify.com>,
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: count the distance correctly when commit dates are skewed
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:07:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avRakxssSCm1qQ4B@ugly.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wj-5hp+FZBAqryzTwJ8DKvuNHub2e0kUG3g_+7borFfEQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 10:29:27AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>For the kernel, people figured out what the issue is: it's not clock
>skew, it's intentional bad behavior by the gitlab Marge-bot merge
>logic.
>[...]
>Don't ask me what complete insanity caused somebody to think that
>keeping the committer name and email should mean that you should also
>lie about the commit *date*.
>
dude! you forgot the "content warning: asbestos underwear required"
disclaimer ... ;-)
anyway, i suspect that nobody actually thought about this at all, and
it's simply a result of the default view of committer/-date (and
author/-date) as pseudo-atomic entities. of course, closer consideration
reveals this to be a not necessarily helpful view, see also [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAP9es6tyaGwfTguz5zgBmE5xN7MLDN3-rxRfo_JJBf79RCNzgg@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-11 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-31 6:55 [PATCH] describe: count the distance correctly when commit dates are skewed Linus Torvalds
2026-10-31 12:31 ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-11-01 1:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-01 9:46 ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-11-01 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-02 6:17 ` SZEDER Gábor
2026-11-02 12:46 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-11-02 14:20 ` Derrick Stolee
2026-11-02 17:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-02 17:52 ` Derrick Stolee
2026-11-02 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-11-03 7:16 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-11-03 15:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-11-04 0:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-04 11:01 ` Kristofer Karlsson
2026-11-04 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-04 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-11-11 12:07 ` Oswald Buddenhagen [this message]
2026-11-05 15:42 ` Kristofer Karlsson
2026-11-05 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
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