Re: git and time

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
Matthew L Foster <mfoster167@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

PS Nit: Git doesn't work with changesets, it works with snapshots,
building a directed graph of snapshots. Maybe that is the source of your
confusion
It's true I don't know much about git, what is the difference
between a changeset and a snapshot?  Are you saying timestamps
should be tracked separately or tracked by an scm system built
on top of git? Does/should git care about the when of a
snapshot?

I do not know what Jeff meant by snapshot vs changeset, so I
would not comment on this part.


Me neither, but I've seen this distinction before on the mailing-list.

To my mind, a changeset is the patch that brings some form of data from one state (snapshot) to another. In this respect, git is certainly both snapshot- and changeset-based.

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