[Bug 38879] Add git history/log parser for tinderbox

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38879

--- Comment #8 from Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> ---
(In reply to comment #7)

> The tinderbox script save the sha of the tips and the timestamp of when they
> _fetched_
> but you cannot rely on the timestamp of the commits themselves as they are
> routinely not in chronological order.

> the commit timestamp is dated from when you created the commit... commit
> appears on HEAD when they are pushed... there can be a significant amount of
> time between the two event... drastic differences for feature branch that
> get integrated
> Just take a look at
> bcc239b405478040fda46d1bf1d4f3e38506d1a3 2013-07-29
> and the next commit is
> 41d2036bee3279928903cdada115d3e3cd022a06 2012-12-18

That's because you look at AuthorDate, and not at CommitDate. CommitDate is
usually in order. Theoretically, they could not be, but that's only if the
clock on the machine doing the rebase / merge / ... is wrong.

$ git log --pretty=fuller 41d2036bee3279928903cdada115d3e3cd022a06
commit 41d2036bee3279928903cdada115d3e3cd022a06
Author:     Herbert Dürr <hdu@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Dec 18 15:25:42 2012 +0000
Commit:     Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Mon Jul 29 11:28:04 2013 +0100

    Resolves: #i121406# support the OSX>=10.7 fullscreen mode based on OSX
Spaces

commit bcc239b405478040fda46d1bf1d4f3e38506d1a3
Author:     Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Jul 29 11:17:11 2013 +0100
Commit:     Gerrit Code Review <gerrit@vm2.documentfoundation.org>
CommitDate: Mon Jul 29 10:17:42 2013 +0000

    Updated core
    Project: help  60eaec58845c8f697c2d7ab5bb671273b0ff4155

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