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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2024 23:32:27 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc:        Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, yuri@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git repo port issues?
Message-ID:  <ZZXui1gm0IIVoWca@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <46C8698A-A004-4B5F-9107-6D9FD3685074@iitbombay.org>
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 03:09:15PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2024, at 11:22???AM, Brooks Davis <brooks@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.

Check each commit in a push to ensure that its CommitDate is newer than
its first parent's CommitDate (you could check them all, but as a
project we're mostly linear).  Seems like a pretty trivial property to
enforce.

-- Brooks



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