From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Additional merge-base tests
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:26:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AB073A.9040301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8esnn$mb5$1@sea.gmane.org>
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> A Large Angry SCM wrote:
>
>> It works[*] and it does what using the timestamp was trying to do.
>> Namely, work from "more recent" (or "closer") commits toward "older" (or
>> "farther") commits until you've gone past the point you care about.
>>
>> It's a little late to be changing the structure of a commit and you'd
>> have to deal with some size/scale issues, but it's do-able. A better
>> idea may be to generate and keep the generation number on a per
>> repository basis, and you'd be able to work around changing grafts.
>
> What about timestamp = MAX(now(), timestamps of parents) idea, which
> doesn't need changing the structure of a commit?
>
So, do you really want your name as committer on a commit with a date
300 years in the future because one of the parents had a bad date?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-05 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-04 3:55 [PATCH] Additional merge-base tests A Large Angry SCM
2006-07-04 5:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-04 6:41 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-07-04 7:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-04 7:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-04 8:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-04 10:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-04 11:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-07-04 11:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-04 11:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-04 20:18 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-07-04 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-04 22:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-04 22:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-04 23:07 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-07-04 23:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-07-04 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-05 0:26 ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2006-07-05 0:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-05 7:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-05 16:15 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-07-05 17:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-05 8:39 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-07-05 14:28 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-07-04 20:08 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-07-05 0:59 ` Junio C Hamano
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