From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git and time
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:32:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <efcdaq$hld$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060926232316.98065.qmail@web51009.mail.yahoo.com
Matthew L Foster wrote:
> After seeing how git currently accepts a remote repository's timestamp
> it occurred to me that git should probably instead prefer the time
> a particular changeset was committed to _this_ repository. Perhaps
> I don't know enough about git but it seems to me the important
> information is when a particular changeset was committed to this
> repository, all other remote/sub/parent repositories' timestamps
> are secondary (or at least should be tracked separately).
First, the information you want is contained in reflog. Dates the head tip
got the specified value.
Second, git cannot rewrite commits (and commits contain timestamp) when
fetching commit from remote repository for performance reasons.
Third, git uses timestams as heuristics, but relies on parent information.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-26 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-26 23:23 git and time Matthew L Foster
2006-09-26 23:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-26 23:32 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-09-26 23:33 ` Jeff King
2006-09-27 0:27 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-27 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-27 8:42 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-09-27 15:28 ` Jeff King
2006-09-27 14:09 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-27 14:29 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-09-27 18:01 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-27 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-27 20:44 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-27 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-27 21:16 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-27 21:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-27 21:44 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-27 21:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-27 22:28 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-27 22:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-27 23:02 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-27 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-28 0:12 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 0:21 ` Jeff King
2006-09-28 0:23 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-28 1:39 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 2:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-29 7:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-09-29 14:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-29 14:21 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-09-28 1:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-28 1:48 ` Matthew L Foster
[not found] ` <20060927220404.8e216945.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-28 2:04 ` Sean
2006-09-28 2:49 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 2:43 ` David Lang
[not found] ` <20060927230330.90c63d23.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-28 3:03 ` Sean
2006-09-28 3:26 ` Tom Prince
2006-09-28 13:17 ` Theodore Tso
2006-09-28 14:50 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 15:29 ` Rogan Dawes
2006-09-28 16:55 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-28 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-28 17:33 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 17:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-28 19:43 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 19:50 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-28 22:29 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 22:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-28 22:55 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-29 8:16 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-09-28 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-28 19:18 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-29 0:27 ` Theodore Tso
2006-09-29 1:44 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-29 2:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-28 20:36 ` Robin Rosenberg
2006-09-28 20:46 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-28 22:12 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 22:25 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-28 22:31 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 22:45 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 3:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-28 3:39 ` Tom Prince
2006-09-28 3:47 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-28 4:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-28 1:36 ` Theodore Tso
2006-09-28 2:29 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 2:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-28 4:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-28 14:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-28 16:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-29 22:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-30 4:50 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-30 7:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-30 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-30 23:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-01 0:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-01 0:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-01 8:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-01 8:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-10-02 23:50 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-29 20:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-27 21:56 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-27 22:46 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-27 22:57 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-27 18:53 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-09-27 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-27 18:00 ` Edgar Toernig
2006-09-27 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-29 20:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-27 1:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03 0:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-27 3:34 ` Jeff King
[not found] ` <20060926234309.b16aa44e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-27 3:43 ` Sean
2006-09-27 4:50 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <20060927010437.5fa57ed0.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-27 5:04 ` Sean
2006-09-27 5:52 ` Jeff King
[not found] ` <20060927021529.69fd7274.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-27 6:15 ` Sean
2006-09-27 4:28 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-27 4:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-27 10:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-27 15:11 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-27 20:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-27 21:36 ` Shawn Pearce
[not found] ` <20060927002745. 15344.qmail@web51005.mail.yahoo.com>
2006-09-27 0:56 ` Sean
[not found] ` <20060926205632.5d487cc9.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-27 0:47 ` David Lang
[not found] ` <20060926210721.36eb509d.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-27 1:07 ` Sean
2006-09-27 1:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-27 1:31 ` David Lang
[not found] ` <20060926215836.f4a25297.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-27 1:58 ` Sean
2006-09-27 2:31 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <20060926224133.714337eb.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-27 2:41 ` Sean
2006-09-29 17:37 ` Jan Harkes
[not found] ` <20060929134616.7966d18c.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-29 17:46 ` Sean
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-28 0:49 apodtele
2006-09-28 16:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-28 16:50 apodtele
[not found] <20060928170110.GD3650@socrates.priv>
2006-09-28 17:30 ` Matthew L Foster
2006-09-28 18:21 apodtele
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