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From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: sverre@rabbelier.nl, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Date parsing
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:40:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080621224042.GE15111@leksak.fem-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806211507370.2926@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 03:28:56PM -0700,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
[...]
>                 /* Be it commit time or author time, it does not make
>                  * sense to specify timestamp way into the future.  Make
>                  * sure it is not later than ten days from now...
>                  */
>                 if (now + 10*24*3600 < specified)
>                         return 0;
[...]

Great.
So it really turns out that this bug is a nifty feature. (Except if we receive
patches from the future with a numeric date format.)

Thanks for the explanation,
  Stephan

-- 
Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-21 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10 14:58 Date parsing Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-10 15:07 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-06-10 15:27   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-10 15:10 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-10 15:31   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-10 16:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 17:51       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-21 21:52       ` Stephan Beyer
2008-06-21 22:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-21 22:37           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-21 22:40           ` Stephan Beyer [this message]

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