From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 23:21:12 +0200 Organization: linutronix Message-ID: <1115932872.11872.86.camel@tglx> References: <1115847510.22180.108.camel@tglx> <428291CD.7010701@zytor.com> <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx> <428297DB.8030905@zytor.com> <1115858022.22180.256.camel@tglx> <7vekcdmd16.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1115884637.22180.277.camel@tglx> <7vvf5ogxdu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1115930845.11872.79.camel@tglx> <4776.10.10.10.24.1115932163.squirrel@linux1> Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , "H. Peter Anvin" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 12 23:14:37 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWKzf-0005oi-Ru for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 23:13:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262126AbVELVUa (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 17:20:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262128AbVELVUa (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 17:20:30 -0400 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:141 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262126AbVELVUV (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 17:20:21 -0400 Received: from mail.tec.linutronix.de (unknown [192.168.0.1]) by mail.tglx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C88A65C003; Thu, 12 May 2005 23:20:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tglx.tec.linutronix.de (tglx.tec.linutronix.de [192.168.0.68]) by mail.tec.linutronix.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A3528204; Thu, 12 May 2005 23:20:16 +0200 (CEST) To: Sean In-Reply-To: <4776.10.10.10.24.1115932163.squirrel@linux1> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 17:09 -0400, Sean wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 4:47 pm, Thomas Gleixner said: > > > As I said before timestamps can be a horrid source of information. Also > > if you keep a list of commits merges and head forwards in timed order it > > is simple to read the repository history, but in case of corruption you > > have to reconstruct it manually. There is no way to do so with the > > information available. > > > > Repository id's can be lost, but are simple to replace as they are > > recorded in the commit blob. > > And the time is recorded on the commit blob too. How do you enforce correct timestamps ? tglx Received: from simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (simmts5.bellnexxia.net [206.47.199.163]) by mail.tglx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623FE65C003 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 23:09:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from linux1 ([69.156.111.46]) by simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050512210923.CCQN11606.simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@linux1>; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:09:23 -0400