Re: git and time

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torsdag 28 september 2006 19:11 skrev Linus Torvalds:
> The time that git records is purely a random number. It's a random number
> that _humans_ can choose to care about or not, and it's a random number
> that git itself uses only in the sense of "ok, I've got two equal choices,
> let's toss a coin to select which one I'll look at next", BUT IT IS A
> RANDOM NUMBER.

I'd think of it as comment, about as (un)reliable as the author field or the 
descriptive free-form comment people enter when they commit. It's not even 
necessarily the local system time if GIT_AUTHOR_DATE has been set.

-- robin
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