From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] object name: introduce ':::<oneline prefix>' notation
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:57:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070224015731.GA10198@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702240248210.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 02:49:31AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > door for :? to find the oldest such match (though I'm not sure if it
> > would be by topology or date).
> By topology makes no sense with more than one root.
Agreed, but by date might not make sense if you have clock skew. I had
assumed your patch for "youngest" was by distance to ref, but I suppose
that doesn't make sense if you are looking over a set of possibly
unconnected refs. So I think trusting the clock may be the only
sensible thing.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-24 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-23 18:32 [PATCH] object name: introduce ':::<oneline prefix>' notation Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-23 22:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-24 1:12 ` Jeff King
2007-02-24 1:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-24 1:30 ` Jeff King
2007-02-24 1:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-24 1:57 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-02-24 2:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-24 2:15 ` Jeff King
2007-02-24 1:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-24 1:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-24 1:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-24 1:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-24 1:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-24 2:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
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