From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recording the date at which a change was pushed to Savannah Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:47:48 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87egshw7or.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <9e4mtd1cdi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417589306 7751 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2014 06:48:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 06:48:26 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 07:48:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw3jV-0006sO-Tl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:48:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw3jV-00074S-KG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 01:48:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39226) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw3jM-000716-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 01:48:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw3jG-00017W-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 01:48:08 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48387) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw3jG-00017O-JJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 01:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw3jE-0006lE-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:48:00 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f4a88f.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.168.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:48:00 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f4a88f.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:48:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f4a88f.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QGis571BkGIhG7fNh9JwXw6ndVI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178711 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > So what I take away from this is what I can't know when Y happened, I > can only know it was after X and before Z. Whoop. Why would that be important? This is a distributed version control system with a common history that does not include tracking of the various ways it was synched. > I've already been confused by this once (in trying to figure out what > went on in some recent merge commits), and expect to be confused by it > again in future. Basically all I can do is ignore the Date fields > completely, or treat them as lower limits. What are you trying to use them for? -- David Kastrup