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derrickpetzold on July 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds proposes a change to the Git commit...

I was talking about the case where the timestamps are off. I don't think there is any way to fix that.

ajuc on July 15, 2011 [–]

You just go the whole way up to the root node counting parents (taking max length when there are many routes), no problem with amiguity. The problem is - it's slow.

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