From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: git and time Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:36:37 +0200 Organization: Dewire Message-ID: <200609282236.37513.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <20060928165509.77413.qmail@web51001.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthew L Foster , Rogan Dawes , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 28 22:36:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GT2cN-0003uH-TS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:36:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750739AbWI1UgY (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:36:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750758AbWI1UgY (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:36:24 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:3167 "EHLO torino.dewire.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750739AbWI1UgX (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:36:23 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by torino.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BF5802895; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:33:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from torino.dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27889-10; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:33:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.9.0.3] (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by torino.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A46802676; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:33:31 +0200 (CEST) To: Linus Torvalds User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: torsdag 28 september 2006 19:11 skrev Linus Torvalds: > The time that git records is purely a random number. It's a random number > that _humans_ can choose to care about or not, and it's a random number > that git itself uses only in the sense of "ok, I've got two equal choices, > let's toss a coin to select which one I'll look at next", BUT IT IS A > RANDOM NUMBER. I'd think of it as comment, about as (un)reliable as the author field or the descriptive free-form comment people enter when they commit. It's not even necessarily the local system time if GIT_AUTHOR_DATE has been set. -- robin