From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Finding file revisions
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:09:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114693800.27227.115.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504271506290.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Remember: time is not a nice linear stream.
Time is neither nice nor linear. Time is a complete illusion.
If _any_ of your tools are using the time for _any_ purpose other than
to display it to the user along with the author/committer information,
then you are probably making a mistake.
Relative time does not represent the revision history of a distributed
system which supports merges. Any correlation you think you see is
_purely_ a coincidence.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-28 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 16:50 Finding file revisions Chris Mason
2005-04-27 17:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 18:23 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-27 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 22:31 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-28 8:41 ` Simon Fowler
2005-04-28 11:56 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-28 13:13 ` Simon Fowler
2005-04-28 11:45 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-28 16:34 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-28 17:10 ` Tony Luck
2005-04-28 17:22 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-04-28 19:11 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-28 20:58 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-28 21:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 21:33 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-28 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 22:27 ` Chris Mason
2005-04-28 13:09 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-04-28 13:01 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-27 18:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-04-28 15:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 16:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-04-28 16:08 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-28 17:05 ` Chris Mason
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