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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: git-rev-list  in local commit order
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On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 17:21 -0400, Sean wrote:
> > Time is illusion.
> 
> What you're missing is that time is only important in this case to deduce
> the relative age of each commit LOCALLY.   The intention of this proposal
> is not to allow time comparison of commits between repositories. 


I do not want to compare times. I want to figure out workflows and
histories between different repositories.

>  In fact,
> you'll see if you look closely, that you don't need to do that in order to
> solve the stated problem of sorting the commits by the time they were
> merged LOCALLY.

Even LOCALLY is no guarantee for correct timestamps.


tglx