Updating commit timestamp on push.

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Kannan Goundan
> 
> ...It would be more useful to us if the
> timestamps represented when each commit made it to the central repo (at
> least within a minute or two).

Why would it be so, if I might ask? Perhaps you are better off with something like SonicHg ( https://kenai.com/projects/sonichg/pages/Pushlog ) instead?

> I looked at "pre-push" hooks and also looked at the way the "mq"
> extension creates a wrapper around the "push" command.  Those options
> aren't straightforward because it looks like I need to parse the
> arguments to "push" (like "-b <branch>") to make sure I figure out the
> right set of commits.  I think I can copy/paste some code from the
> Mercurial source's implementation of "push" to achieve my goal, but
> that seems brittle.

I think there are all kinds of pitfalls with "just" wrapping the push operation on this:

* What about specific pushes, i.e. those pushing only up to a certain revision? E.g. if you have a situation like this:

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9
......^.....^
......|.....\push only up to here
......\already on server

  This would mean your revisions 8 and 9 need rebase or (if available) evolve extension. Also having 5-7 getting the same timestamp seems pointless to me.

* What about bookmarks? They would need to be moved, too.

* What about pushing commits you've got from a colleague's repository? Now you've said that you work in a central manner, but nothing prohibits the user simply using another remote.

IMHO you would be better off using SVN on the central server and hgsubversion to commit to it. There the rewrite/rebase dance is already implemented, plus you get central user "stamping", too.

Regards,
Fritz


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