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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix interesting git-rev-list corner case
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:08:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42EAD301.90804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050730001158.GF32263@mythryan2.michonline.com>

Ryan Anderson wrote:
> Maybe it'd make sense to have the commits refuse to add a commit when it
> would be younger than one of it's parents?

Better not to trust timestamps in distributed federations since you 
can't guarantee any kind of accuracy across administrative boundaries.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-30  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-29 22:50 Fix interesting git-rev-list corner case Linus Torvalds
2005-07-30  0:11 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-07-30  1:08   ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2005-07-30  1:20   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-30  1:28     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-30 10:10 ` Peter Osterlund
2005-07-30 16:18   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-30 20:50     ` Peter Osterlund
2005-07-30 20:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-30 21:01         ` Peter Osterlund
2005-07-30 21:32           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-30 22:10             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-30 23:11               ` Peter Osterlund
2005-07-31  4:44                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-31  5:32                   ` Junio C Hamano

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