From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:47:10 -0700 Message-ID: <7vy6coiqdt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Joel C. Salomon" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 03 00:47:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og3nK-0007fJ-PS for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:47:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754348Ab0HBWr2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:47:28 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:57655 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754053Ab0HBWrS (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:47:18 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DB2C998B; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:47:18 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=FGoynyaKQ/jMgHowa8xnYwB8gRQ=; b=u7ly/D dA4rTTSu4MS0s0Q3sSB/lkVMYxZ0o0MRasj55/WG2T9zSI4sjZqp9VNjNSuJu2TL EWgh9pEL0dGGMWHgMMH69+PDzE3HujqT6v2Gpy9grsVHbIghvgLFU7hgQfOFfAwm nZMy02e8kFvGfAiO0p+2En2IJ3hsfM5CNuPBc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=cysHj0RF6y+4D4+Z7DT2Vz7ivKJmJZ3W OheklANfHjCGmvrkLzdhZsKxGB31OEqkR2VuFJ1fpJawysRMXNdmWDklutH3cslI kUMRClhEy58sd/VZ4J+oWPeOxa/MWomu5qC8D9sjt7ljeyHfwlJuoUXeuYl1GSG6 PMT6qm52b3o= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE42C9989; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [69.181.135.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 89C22C9983; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:47:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Jakub Narebski's message of "Mon\, 02 Aug 2010 14\:48\:32 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E584530E-9E87-11DF-8A91-9056EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski writes: > The headers inside commit (and tag) objects are stored in text form, > so they are not limited to 32-bit value. You would have to use system > that has 64-bit time_t, or patch git. I thought the internal representation of our time was "unsigned long", no? How can you represent anything before Unix epoch?