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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recording the date at which a change was pushed to Savannah
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:47:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egshw7or.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9e4mtd1cdi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> 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




  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-03  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-02  2:55 Recording the date at which a change was pushed to Savannah Glenn Morris
2014-12-02  4:55 ` Yuri Khan
2014-12-02  5:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-02 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03  6:22   ` Glenn Morris
2014-12-03  6:47     ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-12-03  7:51     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-03  8:35       ` David Kastrup
2014-12-03  9:50         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-03 10:04           ` David Kastrup
2014-12-03 14:18         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03 16:19           ` Yuri Khan
2014-12-03 18:59             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03 18:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 19:00             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03 19:06               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 19:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-03 20:24                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 21:10                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-04  2:52                       ` Yuri Khan
2014-12-04  6:17                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-04  2:58           ` Glenn Morris
2014-12-04  3:57             ` Stefan Monnier

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