From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Commits with ancient timestamps Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:44:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87mx90yz5y.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> References: <1328218903-5681-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 03 11:44:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RtGcr-0006Ju-HU for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:44:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755914Ab2BCKoN (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2012 05:44:13 -0500 Received: from edge20.ethz.ch ([82.130.99.26]:35740 "EHLO edge20.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755906Ab2BCKoM (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2012 05:44:12 -0500 Received: from CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) by edge20.ethz.ch (82.130.99.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:44:07 +0100 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:44:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1328218903-5681-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:41:41 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > avoid misinterpreting human-written timestamp in other formats, and > timestamps before 1975 do not have enough number of digits in them. > > Here is a two-patch series that may improve the situation. Doing this just makes me wonder how important exactly the 1970-1975 range is. Is there a notable software history from that era that can be recovered? (Your [1/2] does not seem to parse negative offsets from the unix epoch, so anything before 1970 is still out.) -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch