Derrick Stolee <[email protected]> writes:

> The author_date_slab is used to store the author date of a commit
> when walking with the --author-date flag in rev-list or log. This
> was added as an 'unsigned long' in
>
>       81c6b38b "log: --author-date-order"
>
> Since 'unsigned long' is ambiguous in its bit-ness across platforms
> (64-bit in Linux, 32-bit in Windows, for example), most references
> to the author dates in commit.c were converted to timestamp_t in
>
>       dddbad72 "timestamp_t: a new data type for timestamps"
>
> However, the slab definition was missed,

Makes sense, and obviously correct.

> I found this while reading up on the revision-walk machinery. This code
> hasn't been touched in years, so could apply to 'maint'.

Thanks.

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