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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> But the revision.c change might be worth it, if only as a slight band-aid 
> for the current issue. It won't fix the original problem, though (because 
> that broken repo had a five *year* clock skew, not an hour :)
>
> I'll continue to think about whether I can come up with some sane 
> heuristic that allows non-broken cases to not go all the way up to the 
> root.

I really wish this was still May 2005.  Then I (actually, you)
could just decree:

	Sorry guys, but you all need to run convert-objects to
	update your repo.  What it does is to add a "generation"
	header to each and every commit object.  Then upgrade
	your git to this version, that maintains the
	"generation" number, defined as:

        (1) parentless commit gets generation #0;

        (2) otherwise the generation number of a commit is
	    max(its parents' generation number)+1.