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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: git and time
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:02:56 -0400
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Matthew L Foster wrote:
> >
> > So the separate action of replication is not tracked?
> 
> Correct. Replication without changes is a no-op.

I think it could be reasonably argued that knowing when the head(s)
of your public repository on a mirror of kernel.org changed to a
given value is useful.  Especially when there is a mirroring lag.

-- 
Shawn.