Re: [PATCH] Accept dates before 2000/01/01 when specified as seconds since the epoch

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Sam Vilain wrote:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I vaguely recall hitting the same issue soon after date.c was
> > done, and sending in a patch in the same spirit but with
> > different implementation (I essentially duplicated that "seconds
> > since epoch" without any cutoff as the last ditch fallback) long
> > time ago (this was before I took git over; the patch was rejected).
> > 
> > It almost makes me wonder if it is better to introduce a special
> > syntax to denote "seconds since epoch plus timezone offset" for
> > our Porcelain use, instead of keeping this arbitrary cut-off
> > date which nobody can agree on and which forces us to roll back
> > from time to time.  For one thing, such a syntax would allow us
> > to talk about a timestamp before the epoch.
> > 
> > Perhaps
> > 
> > 	"epoch" [-+] [0-9]+ " " [-+][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
> 
> Probably a good idea, though it would break cg-admin-rewritehist.

FWIW I don't think we have to care that much about cg-admin-rewritehist, 
since it lives on as git-filter-branch, and we can adapt it as we go.

Ciao,
Dscho