From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
To: Ben Lynn <benlynn@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git bugs
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:46:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080611124634.GA26729@cuci.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <832adb090806101724k6199694ftbbc6ed151489a6e3@mail.gmail.com>
Ben Lynn wrote:
>That is problematic. How do I figure out what the filesystem thinks is
>the current time? I could touch some file and read its mtime, but I
>want a shortcut.
That basically is as short as it gets, except perhaps statting a freshly
modified file (not necessarily by oneself).
>Are there any guarantees of any kind? e.g. is the filesystem current
>time at least never ahead of the system time?
Practically no guarantees, just that it is rather likely for the time at
the fileserver to progress at about the same pace as yours.
--
Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
Differentiation is an integral part of calculus.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 8:41 git bugs Ben Lynn
2008-06-10 16:58 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-10 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 18:45 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-10 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 23:09 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-10 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-11 0:02 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 0:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-11 0:24 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 0:53 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 12:46 ` Stephen R. van den Berg [this message]
2008-06-12 6:51 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 1:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 2:04 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 2:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 2:31 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 5:58 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 6:18 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 14:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 17:52 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 18:48 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 20:57 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-11 14:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-12 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-13 10:10 ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 23:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-14 6:25 ` Jeff King
2008-06-12 3:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-12 6:46 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-12 7:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
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2017-02-24 16:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
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