Re: git and time

Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Matthew L Foster wrote:

quoted

Perhaps git should record three(+) timestamps, adding when the change was committed into this
repository?

What you CAN do is to connect (in any particular private repository) a 
_branch_update_ with the time it was done. That is Shawn Pierces "reflog" 
work - you can track a particular branch _locally_. It's purely local to 
that _one_ repository, though. It by definition makes no sense anywhere 
else, and it's not tracking commits, it's literally tracking how branches 
changed in a local copy.

Well, I would simply look at the filesystem's mtime of the commit object
resp. the pack containing the commit.  IMHO good enough most of the time.

Ciao, ET.