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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>,
	Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Corrupted (?) commit 6e6db85e confusing gitk
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:36:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbq98u3l1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712021348020.8458@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:49:40 -0800 (PST)")

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

> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> 
>> Darn.  But when can "GIT_AUTHOR_DATE" be set to the empty string?  I mean, 
>> I understand unset'ing it.  But setting it to ""?
>
> Well, regardless, I think we should make sure that git-commit-tree never 
> writes out an invalid commit - no matter *how* insane input it gets. 
> Making it complain loudly (with a 'die("Oh, no, you don't!")') would be a 
> good idea.

FWIW, fmt_ident() records the current time (before the kh/commit series,
and after the fix I sent on top of kh/commit series), which may be a
reasonable alternative.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-02 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-02 16:06 Corrupted (?) commit 6e6db85e confusing gitk Steffen Prohaska
2007-12-02 16:12 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-12-02 16:36 ` [PATCH] gitk: Add workaround to handle corrupted author date Steffen Prohaska
2007-12-02 18:53 ` Corrupted (?) commit 6e6db85e confusing gitk Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 19:39   ` Brian Downing
2007-12-02 20:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-02 20:48     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 21:25       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-02 21:47         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 22:43           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-02 21:43       ` Fix --signoff in builtin-commit differently Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 22:31         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-02 22:59       ` Corrupted (?) commit 6e6db85e confusing gitk Michael Gebetsroither
2007-12-02 23:05         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 21:34     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-02 21:49       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-02 22:36         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-12-02 22:14       ` Junio C Hamano

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