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Subject: Re: git and time
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> Because git doesn't care about timestamps. It stores them as comments 
> (albeit auto-formatted comments) and relies on the dependency chain to 
> provide history.

Ok, the word "history" in the context of git primarily means the order of changes not the when?
Would it be a conceptual or technical issue for git to directly track the local time of
merges/changesets?

-Matt

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