Re: Change set based shallow clone

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-09-10 08:54:34
On 9/9/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> However, it's just a heuristic. "Most recent date" is not well-defined in
> a distributed environment that doesn't have a global clock. If somebody
> does commits on a machine that has the clock just set wrong, "most recent"
> may well not be _really_ recent.

When a merge happens could git fix things up in the database by adding
a corrected, hidden time stamp that would keep things from having an
out of order time sequence? That way you wouldn't need to rediscover
the out of order commit each time the tree is generated.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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