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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] object name: introduce ':::<oneline prefix>' notation
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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