On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Matthew L Foster wrote: > > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: 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