On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:18:00 -0600 "Matthew D. Fuller" <fulle...@over-yonder.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:45:01AM +0200 I heard the voice of > Ion-Mihai Tetcu, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > Since you have the date, you can easily get the git magic string. > > Not necessarily true at all, in VCS's that don't limit to single-line > history. Consider the case where I'm working on a feature in a > private branch since 2000-01-01. You take a snapshot of the trunk > branch on 2000-02-01. My branch is merged on 2000-03-01. > > Now on 2000-04-01, somebody wants to look back and figure out which > revision corresponds to your timestamp. There are at least 2 paths > through the history that could have a commit at [to any arbitrary > granularity] the exact same date/time; there could well be more, on an > active project. Depending on the particular system and workflow, it > may not even be theoretically possible to figure out which is referred > to, short of doing full source comparisons; it can certainly be > non-trivial in many cases. 1. Is this true in git case? 2. I wouldn't use a VCS that doesn't let me check out a version of the sources as they were at a specific date in a given branch (including HEAD). it's an anti-feature that negates the idea of VCS IMO. -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> ite...@freebsd.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B
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