From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <4C599781.2020603@gmail.com> <4C5B2F2E.4050709@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?iso-8859-15?q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0_Bjarmason?= , "Joel C. Salomon" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Sverre Rabbelier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 06 10:18:19 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 1OhI8B-0003mv-0e for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:18:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935438Ab0HFISN convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:18:13 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:63639 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933008Ab0HFISK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:18:10 -0400 Received: by fxm14 with SMTP id 14so3629710fxm.19 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:18:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4Q4xNZTOsXpVYnQlAj/QLxS4h1WAiWvUUTgp8ktCEG0=; b=PDpqlTPSWH1jwIknmMp6hyrOd0Dy+OCCuFRgcx54lqbQL049Ibzl+N6WvuCfhq3cW9 83M9x+w6RrcrcmtJY/z3MIFansR6sgJ8970fj4WCUPrqO1GbotM9HhHOWKPOJfK3xEcc Z8Ye5h3HD9NwlYny803UXRvwUcHUkxBuH+AnI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Af3zf/KTAq0FKSxFy6eTWqGAWem+6tq+M440G2OjPRaoZ5/dcWIlYjdJV7dAyAGqpC 2YrFI2afMJ1Dq53BzSLoVCurX9YUe/vshPzKI+w3POeYG5sGxmiZBes8+f0WvfivYWYn /Put/o6oFaGxak9f+WJqdE9azp2ZmNmwgatP8= Received: by 10.223.120.82 with SMTP id c18mr12278068far.69.1281082688826; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvc105.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.200.105]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12sm504012fan.25.2010.08.06.01.18.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o75Mof2h007707; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:50:46 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id o75MoUvX007703; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:50:31 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sverre Rabbelier writes: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 16:58, =C6var Arnfj=F6r=F0 Bjarmason wrote: > > On 32bit: > > > > commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d > > Author: The Philadelphia Convention <> > > Date: =A0 Wed Dec 31 19:59:59 1969 -0400 > > > > On 64bit: > > > > commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d > > Author: The Philadelphia Convention <> > > Date: =A0 Mon Sep 17 13:00:00 1787 -0400 > > > > It would be useful to turn that into a TODO test for Git. >=20 > That's bad, if we can't store a particular date we should do somethin= g > about it, not just silently underflow. We can *store* it without problems, the problem is with *interpretation* by porcelain (and some plumbing). --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git