On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Hi Ted, [ nip ] > > It seems that the committer date is set to coincide with the author > date for ext4 patches, which breaks some assumptions by git that each > commit has a later or equal committer date than all parents (modulo > some skew). Argh. Yeah, that's just _evil_. Admittedly, git should never care, but in practice it does, because doing the whole graph walk can be _very_ expensive. So git wants to think that the committer dates at least have _some_ real-life significance. 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