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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bugreport: git does not like subseconds
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:09:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1vxfh7sh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LFD.2.00.0811130842550.3468@nehalem.linux-foundation.org

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Git does not like subseconds in $GIT_{AUTHOR,COMMITTER}_DATE,
>> and somehow does time travel instead. Perhaps this is a Glibc
>> limitation? Running openSUSE 11's glibc-2.8(which is actually
>> a 2.7 snapshot I think: glibc-2.8-2008042513.tar.bz2).
>
> This should have been fixed by 9f2b6d2936a7c4bb3155de8efec7b10869ca935e 
> ("date/time: do not get confused by fractional seconds").
>
> But maybe that hasn't made it into any release yet? It's in master, but 
> maybe it never made it into stable? Junio?

No it didn't.

Actually I didn't even think of that as a bug, in the sense that git never
accepted fractional seconds and feeding such to git was a user error from
day one; iow, 9f2b6d2 (date/time: do not get confused by fractional
seconds, 2008-08-16) was an idiotproofing ;-)

But I'd agree perhaps we should cherry pick that one.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-13 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-13 16:26 bugreport: git does not like subseconds Jan Engelhardt
2008-11-13 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-13 16:57   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-11-13 17:09   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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