Re: [GIT PULL for v7.4] media updates

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2026 at 00:47, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And if people are playing games with commit dates, they need to stop
> doing that. NOW. Because I'm not pulling the media tree until this is
> dealt with.

Note that this is more than "don't lie" (although that's the biggest
issue to me personally - I don't want to see people lying about what
is going on).

It actually broke git this merge window. See

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261031065525.19883-2-torvalds@xxxxxxxxxx/

for a patch I sent to the git mailing list to make git-describe show
the right commit counts.

Git doesn't depend on commit dates for _correctness_, but they are
used for a few heuristics for quick history traversal.

So if you lie about commit times, or are committing on a broken
machine with dates completely off, the resulting repository data is
actively worse.

               Linus