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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git and time
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Matthew L Foster wrote:
> --- A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like you're suggesting that Git should not record any timestamps 
>> at all. After all, Git doesn't need them.
> 
> Yeah kind of, since distributed git doesn't need timestamps and can't guarantee them the only time
> that might make any sense to use locally is local commit time. 

There is no local commit time for things you get from a remote repository.

When I wrote "Sounds like you're suggesting that Git should not record 
any timestamps at all", I meant _you_ don't think Git should record 
_any_ timestamps since they can't be guaranteed to match the DAG.