Re: [PATCH] Additional merge-base tests

From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-07-05 10:26:34
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> 
>> It works[*] and it does what using the timestamp was trying to do. 
>> Namely, work from "more recent" (or "closer") commits toward "older" (or 
>> "farther") commits until you've gone past the point you care about.
>>
>> It's a little late to be changing the structure of a commit and you'd 
>> have to deal with some size/scale issues, but it's do-able. A better 
>> idea may be to generate and keep the generation number on a per 
>> repository basis, and you'd be able to work around changing grafts.
> 
> What about timestamp = MAX(now(), timestamps of parents) idea, which
> doesn't need changing the structure of a commit?
> 

So, do you really want your name as committer on a commit with a date 
300 years in the future because one of the parents had a bad date?
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Received on Wed Jul 05 10:27:55 2006

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : 2006-07-05 10:28:21 EST