Re: git and time

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

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When did the merge happen? It happened at 8:30 on my machine, and that's 
what is recorded. End of story. No ifs, buts, maybes about it. That's the 
only time you can _ever_ see for that merge.

Ok, so it's more complex because of the workflow issue of delayed/pseudo mirroring/replication
between private and public repos? This cloning/replication is not done through git?

No, it very much happened with git.

But git will _refuse_ to rewrite history. That means that if a commit says 
it happened at 8:30AM on machine X, git will _not_ rewrite history to say 
that it happened at 9:30AM on machine Y just because that's when it made 
it to that machine.

Are you saying it's impossible for master.kernel.org's git to track the 
local time of each commit/merge/replication?

No, I'm saying that that would be _lying_.

The actual action happened at 8:30. And git tracks only truth. It doesn't 
rewrite the truth afterwards.

		Linus