On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Vojtek <[email protected]> writes: > >> It seems the commit date can be between 1970 and 2100 (on my 32bit >> linux),... > > The underlying data representation records time as number of seconds > since epoch (1970-01-01). Theoretically the codepaths that read > data could consider negative timestamps to represent times before > the epoch, but in the context of source code control, negative > values are more likely to be an indication of a bug or a user > mistake, and I do not think any existing code in Git is prepared to > pass such a timestamp as a sane value---instead they diagnose a > failure and die.
I remember a pretty old thread found some success storing timestamps this way: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/152433 -Dan Johnson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
