[Monotone-devel] Re: 0.48 rants

[Lapo Luchini]

Philipp Gröschler wrote:
> Another bunch of questions: isn't it dangerous to have the Date field
> editable, or are there checks done to guarantee the entered date is
> reasonable, and for example not temporally _before_ the last revision's
> date? What purpose is there anyway in having an editable Date field?

The Date is not used internally by monotone in any way (it's the shape
of the graph that creates order relationships, not the date of the
commits), it is simply shown in the log for human consumption and we
have no way to know it's correct anyways (people could always change the
computer clock prior to commit).

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