On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > As Shawn said in a nearby thread, in a public and prominent > repository like kernel.org repository it may sometimes be > interesting and useful to know when each commit became available > on each branch. I am reasonably sure that it would not however > make gitweb output easier to read to order its output by that > timestamp. Linus pulls from subsystem maintainers all the time > and one pull may bring in dozens of commits, and they will get > the same timestamp if you did so. Actually it is worse than > that. He tends to batch, so he would have many such pulls and > patch applications in his private repository, perhaps over a few > hour, but the result will be pushed out to kernel.org with one > push operation. To show the "truthful" time, your gitweb would > give the timestamp of that push operation for hundreds of > commits pushed out during that operation. > > I do not personally think that would be useful at all. And I > happen to know how expensive to teach gitweb to produce such an > output, so I would not seriously suggest anybody to try it. I beg to differ. Such information might be really useful. I agree though that this is an expensive operation and gitweb might not be the best place for it at all. For example... some times I look at git-log output and finds about a certain bug fix that was apparently committed a month ago. And incidentally I recall having been bitten by that bug not really long ago, say last week. Although the bug fix was committed _somewhere_ last month, what I would really want to know is just when _i_ received that bug fix in my own repository to determine if it was before or after last week. So if it was before last week then I could conclude that the bug fix didn't actually fix my bug. Knowing that it has been committed last month is absolutely useless to me in this case. Nicolas - 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