Josef Weidendorfer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 23:15, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> >>> We could introduce a time.maximumSkew variable, and just walk only >>> that much further when traversing the commits. >> We could have had "commit generation number" in the commit >> object header, and use that instead of commit timestamps for >> these traversal purposes. > > Isn't this "commit generation number" information that can be > regenerated on the fly, i.e. a perfect fit for data to be stored > in a persistant cache, e.g. in ".git/tmp/virtual-commit-timestamps"? Yes - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html