Re: [PATCH] Additional merge-base tests

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A Large Angry SCM wrote:

> It works[*] and it does what using the timestamp was trying to do. 
> Namely, work from "more recent" (or "closer") commits toward "older" (or 
> "farther") commits until you've gone past the point you care about.
> 
> It's a little late to be changing the structure of a commit and you'd 
> have to deal with some size/scale issues, but it's do-able. A better 
> idea may be to generate and keep the generation number on a per 
> repository basis, and you'd be able to work around changing grafts.

What about timestamp = MAX(now(), timestamps of parents) idea, which
doesn't need changing the structure of a commit?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


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