What operations would be sped up by having generation numbers? I see Jeff King's...

cypherpunks01 on July 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds proposes a change to the Git commit...

What operations would be sped up by having generation numbers?

I see Jeff King's message that they would make certain bounding traversals faster, but when do bounding traversals need to be computed when I'm using git day-to-day?

Rauchg on July 15, 2011 [–]

It's also about making git not error-prone, which the current timestamp approach seems to do.