Bakul Shah wrote in <46c8698a-a004-4b5f-9107-6d9fd3685...@iitbombay.org>: |On Jan 3, 2024, at 11:22 AM, Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote: |> |> Nothing about dates is centralized in git, but some server side checks |> could be implemented on CommitDate. IMO we should require that |> CommitDate be >= the previous one and less than "now". | |Given that git commit objects form a DAG, I don't see how you can |impose linearity.
On the other hand, if a project agrees, and for example locks the main branch, any merging or plain committing to it can enforce commit-amending including date-updates etc, as well as expanding $CVS and @# SCCS format strings (i think by then this discussion came up in the past, and Warner Losh rejected such a thing, if i recall correctly ... but may not). --End of <46c8698a-a004-4b5f-9107-6d9fd3685...@iitbombay.org> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)