From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: merge time Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <686661.84825.qm@web51011.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, david@lang.hm To: Matthew L Foster X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 30 05:09:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFLdG-0008PI-EV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:09:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936710AbXG3DJP (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:09:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936602AbXG3DJP (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:09:15 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:53844 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936595AbXG3DJO (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:09:14 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l6U39793001169 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:09:08 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l6U392Cq022679; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:09:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: <686661.84825.qm@web51011.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.727 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.15__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.181 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Matthew L Foster wrote: > > > but if git did what you wanted it would show every commit with the time of > > the merge, and that wouldn't help you anyway. > > Actually that is exactly what I want. I want to know what local time change X and Y (and all > changes) were merged locally. You misunderstand. It would do so both for the newly merged commits *and* for the old commits. Because _you_ think the "new" commits got merged, but it's logically exactly equivalent to saying that the *old* commits got merged. So now *every* single commit would get the timestamp of the merge. See? It would be pointless. Linus