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[Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone
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Lapo Luchini |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone |
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:59:42 +0200 |
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Markus Wanner wrote:
>> to better provide the functionality of letting people
>> know that someone else's clock that they can't fix is broken.
>
> The main motivation is making dates cert information more reliable. But
> it looks like that's not considered "core functionality" of monotone.
I think Nathaniel's point of "you can't fix" is important… let's
exemplify it:
day 1. user NTP commits with correct date 2008-10-24
day 2. user MadTime commits with incorrect date 2009-10-25
(and you can do nothing about it, as it's incorrect in the future,
so the check you propose would happily pass)
day 3. user NTP tries to commit with correct date 2008-10-26
gets a warning he can do nothing about as it wasn't his fault really
Being user NTP I would in fact be bothered by that warning… if we could
devise a way to warn user Madtime and not user NTP, I'd happily choose
for it, but I can't see a way myself…
OK, in my exaggerated +1year case you could use a "are you sure to
commit on a 1-year-old branch" warning, but in more mundane +1day cases
that wouldn't be nice at all.
--
Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/
“When two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall come to a
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- [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Bruce Stephens, 2008/10/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Ethan Blanton, 2008/10/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Stephen Leake, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2008/10/23
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Nathaniel Smith, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/24
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone,
Lapo Luchini <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/24
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Bruce Stephens, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/24
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/23
Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Daniel Carosone, 2008/10/20