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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw•cz>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel.org now has gitweb installed
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:23:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114723402.2734.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1x8u7g26.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:21 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 2. Assuming that we do want to enforce that parent fields of a
>    commit object name valid commit objects, is it OK to also
>    require that the commit timestamp of a child object is not in
>    the future relative to any and all of its parent commit
>    objects

No. Time is utterly meaningless -- it's perfectly normal for clocks to
be out of sync. We really don't want to fall into the trap of assigning
any meaning to the timestamp.

-- 
dwmw2


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-28 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-28  1:38 kernel.org now has gitweb installed H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28  4:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-28  7:35 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28  8:10   ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-28  8:29     ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28  9:23       ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 18:55         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 21:20           ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 21:40             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 21:47               ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 21:50             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 21:52             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 22:12               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 22:12               ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-29  2:46                 ` Jan Harkes
2005-04-28 21:21           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-28 21:23             ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-04-28 21:44               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-28 22:04                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 22:59               ` Gerhard Schrenk
2005-04-28 21:38             ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-28 21:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-28 21:44             ` Linus Torvalds

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