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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> What I think you want and what you should talk about is that you're 
> interested into the "local appearance time" for a given commit and not 
> "local commit time".  Using that terminology is probably much less 
> confusing in the GIT world.
>
> To do so you'll need a GIT command that doesn'T exist yet.  Let's call 
> it git-local-arrival.  It could be defined as follows:
>
> SYNOPSIS
>
> 	git-local-arrival <committish>
>
> DESCRIPTION
>
> 	The command displays the time when given commit appeared in the 
> 	local repository.

This should be certainly doable, but local-arrival may not be
interesting if the repository has more than one branches.  Maybe

	git-local-arrival <committish> [<branch>]

which defaults to the current branch?