From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps? Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:12:32 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121128001231.GA27971@thyrsus.com> References: <20121127204828.577264065F@snark.thyrsus.com> <7vzk22lmz9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20121127230419.GA26080@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git To: Shawn Pearce X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 28 01:12:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TdVGm-0003UP-1j for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:12:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751951Ab2K1AMh (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:12:37 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:58420 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751299Ab2K1AMg (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:12:36 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 381AF40661; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:12:32 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Shawn Pearce : > Well... if we added a fractional seconds to a commit, older versions > of Git will scream loudly and refuse to work with the new commit. That > would create a fork of Git. So much for that idea, I guess. Unless..I don't know how git's database representations work. Are they version-stamped in any way? If so, some slightly painful hackery would get around that problem. I'm being exploratory, here. No proposal to code anything is in the offing. -- Eric S. Raymond