From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: bug in name-rev on linux-2.6 repo? Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20100421195822.GX10984@baikonur.stro.at> <20100422121408.GI3211@stro.at> <20100422124042.GA1433@progeny.tock> <20100422144433.GB28923@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20100422145455.GC28923@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20100422150325.GB4801@progeny.tock> <20100422151708.GA15039@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20100422162504.GA4913@progeny.tock> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , Andreas Schwab , maximilian attems , Tay Ray Chuan , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 22 20:22:58 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O513A-0003IE-Ec for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:22:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754197Ab0DVSWq (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:22:46 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36385 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754109Ab0DVSWp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:22:45 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id o3MIM9XP005557 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:22:10 -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 o3MIM7UN032716; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:22:07 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20100422162504.GA4913@progeny.tock> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.448 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Hi Ted, [ nip ] > > It seems that the committer date is set to coincide with the author > date for ext4 patches, which breaks some assumptions by git that each > commit has a later or equal committer date than all parents (modulo > some skew). Argh. Yeah, that's just _evil_. Admittedly, git should never care, but in practice it does, because doing the whole graph walk can be _very_ expensive. So git wants to think that the committer dates at least have _some_ real-life significance. Linus