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From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Josh McKinney <git-bugs@lists.joshka.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reftable reflog timezone encoding differs from specification
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:10:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <artkVoGEP0iLOGgr@pks.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2abba760-d331-4cad-bb8b-6e567b517beb@app.fastmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 09:02:36AM -0700, Josh McKinney wrote:
> I think my main concern here is mostly around using multiple tools on
> the same repo and how they should interpret on disk formats (my
> clanker picked up the problem when comparing git's output with a
> library it's writing).

Yeah, and sticking to the spec we have is the best way to fix that, I'd
think.

> Anyway, nothing urgent on the problem from me because I noticed it
> purely in a development context. Thanks for filling in the bits about
> the real world impact on this too.

Well, I think fixing it is somewhat urgent -- the longer we have the
inconsistency the more problems it causes. I'll aim for having a fix for
this ready later this week.

Thanks for detecting this!

Patrick

      reply	other threads:[~2026-09-29  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-28  7:00 Reftable reflog timezone encoding differs from specification Josh McKinney
2026-09-28 12:13 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-09-28 14:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-28 16:02     ` Josh McKinney
2026-09-29  7:10       ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]

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