Re: git and time

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:34:59 -0400
Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

Right. So you really want to know not "when did this commit enter this
repo" but rather "when did this head/branch first contain this commit"
(since there may be multiple branches within a repo).

Even though it's being a bit pedantic, I have to disagree with you here.
The question the user is asking is exactly, "When did this commit enter
_this_ repo?".

Because of the design of git, such a question must be converted into a
question regarding reflogs and head/branch values etc...  But the user
doesn't care anything about all that.  They're just interested in the
date/time the commit was published in the repository in question, not
the date time the commit was originally created in some distant
repo.

Sean