git non-time-sequential logs

Jamie Landeg-Jones jamie at catflap.org
Tue Jan 5 13:08:27 UTC 2021


Ryan Libby <rlibby at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:08 AM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> ...
> > As for date order, we could also add a commit hook that requires the date
> > to be properly set, but that creates friction for developers. Is that
> > friction worth the benefits? I don't think so, but as you say we could also
> > add notes... but since there's no checkout by date feature, I'm not sure
> > what good it would do.
>
> Not a vote one way or the other, but it would at least make
> git log --since more meaningful.

Not having timestamps on files cloned or viewed in cgit.freebsd.org is a nightmare too.


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