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From: Matthew L Foster <mfoster167@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: git and time
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:39:13 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

> Dependency order is all that matters.
> 
> It doesn't matter if K. Hacker makes a bug fix at 8 am his local
> time or 3 days ago.  All that matters is that K. Hacker made it by
> changing version A to version B.  Therefore commit B (containing
> the bug fix) depends on commit A and only commit A (which may in
> turn depend on commit A^, etc.).

>>From a web display/generic notion of integrity perspective time order matters to me but it looks
like I am the only one. Keeping track of _local_ commit time would not add any dependencies. 

-Matt


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