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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Corrupted (?) commit 6e6db85e confusing gitk
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:47:20 -0800
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> The next issue would be to find who could pass an empty GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
>> without noticing...
>
> In the meantime, here's a not-very-well-tested patch to fsck to at least 
> notice this.

Thanks.

I recall that the very initial git did not use the current format for
timestamp but ctime() return value, and this will also notice them (and
convert-objects will be there for us).