From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git and time Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20060928022917.29678.qmail@web51011.mail.yahoo.com> <7vfyec63jx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vd59ejokp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060930045037.GB18479@spearce.org> <7v4pupizix.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vd59d7y8v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 01 02:13:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GToxS-0007HK-2v for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:13:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751775AbWJAANW (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:13:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751782AbWJAANW (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:13:22 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:30903 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751775AbWJAANV (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:13:21 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k910DGaX018773 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:13:17 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k910DFsb003080; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:13:15 -0700 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vd59d7y8v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.447 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.94__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.155 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > However, I think the traditional "find the closest ancestor" > behaviour and ref-log behaviour are mutually incompatible, while > they both return information to help address similar issues to > the end user when viewed at a very high level. > > Especially, "find the closest ancestor" behaviour means when you > get "tag-gXXXX" as an answer, the tag proper does _not_ contain > the given commit (e.g. commit v1.4.2-g4839bd8 is not part of > v1.4.2). Correct. But that just means that we should take the _next_ one in the time-ordered list, no? Linus