Subject: Re: Does content provenance matter?

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 16:12:59 -0700 (PDT)

Kelly Dean <[email-masked]> writes:

> The basic question is, if provenance doesn't matter, then why does a
> git commit record its parent(s)? Why not omit this information, and
> figure it out at search time (by looking at all commits with older
> timestamps),

Because it is not possible to do in reliable way in face of parallel
concurrent branchy development by multiple developers... some of which
can have badly set clock.

Also, multiple merges of the same branch.
-- 
Jakub Narebski