On 4/23/2011 4:08, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Not to my knowledge, no. It records who created a patch and when, but not
> when it was applied to any particular repo.

That seems a problem to me, yes. :-)

>> So if, for example, I'm working, and everything's good, and I take some
>> patches from you, then work some more, then take some patches from Sam,
>> then work some more, then run my test and it fails, can I figure out
>> that it was Sam's patches, even if he created those patches before I
>> even cloned the repository in the first place?
>
> In that case you're presumably going to revert patches until the problem
> goes away. Maybe one patch broke something, maybe its an interaction of
> several patches. You turn patches on and off until you figure out what's up.

Sure. But I can't tell after the fact when I sucked Sam's patch in, so if 
Sam wrote the patch 2 months ago and I only started seeing the problem a 
week ago, it's not obvious that it might actually be Sam's patch.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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