Re: git and time

Keep in mind that git doesn't really CARE about timestamps to do most
operations; it operates on the graph created by parentage. Think of the
timestamps more as comments; when a commit is created, we comment who
did it and when, both accordinging to their local information.

-Peff

PS Nit: Git doesn't work with changesets, it works with snapshots,
building a directed graph of snapshots. Maybe that is the source of your
confusion

It's true I don't know much about git, what is the difference between a changeset and a snapshot?
Are you saying timestamps should be tracked separately or tracked by an scm system built on top of
git? Does/should git care about the when of a snapshot?

Perhaps my question is directed more toward gitweb.cgi, it seems to me the timestamp of when a
snapshot was merged into this repository should somehow be tracked and that is what gitweb.cgi
should default to display. For example, if someone wants to know if security bugfix X was merged
into linus' kernel tree they also want to know when that happened, don't they? 

-Matt


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