Subject: Re: git and time

From: A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:25:42 -0700

Matthew L Foster wrote:
> --- A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like you're suggesting that Git should not record any timestamps 
>> at all. After all, Git doesn't need them.
> 
> Yeah kind of, since distributed git doesn't need timestamps and can't guarantee them the only time
> that might make any sense to use locally is local commit time. 

There is no local commit time for things you get from a remote repository.

When I wrote "Sounds like you're suggesting that Git should not record 
any timestamps at all", I meant _you_ don't think Git should record 
_any_ timestamps since they can't be guaranteed to match the DAG.