Re: git repo port issues?

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