Re: git and time

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--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Ok, the word "history" in the context of git primarily means the order of changes not the
> when?
> > Would it be a conceptual or technical issue for git to directly track the local time of
> > merges/changesets?
> 
> True merges _get_ tracked - they are commits too (they just have multiple 
> parents).
> 
> But it's only the time the merge was done that gets tracked, not the time 
> the merge was then pushed out to somebody else.

What is the difference between a merge and a "merge then pushed out"? There are at least some
situations where a repo would prefer to know its local time of a merge or pulled in merge and
anyway a local repo probably should not in any way be dependent on nor _trust_ all remote repos
timestamps...?

-Matt


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