Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2010, 07:39 UTC
Message-ID: <201008030939.09999.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6coiqdt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Dnia wtorek 3. sierpnia 2010 00:47, Junio C Hamano napisał:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The headers inside commit (and tag) objects are stored in text form,
> > so they are not limited to 32-bit value.  You would have to use system
> > that has 64-bit time_t, or patch git.
> 
> I thought the internal representation of our time was "unsigned long", no?
> How can you represent anything before Unix epoch?

time_t is signed long. Besides, git uses textual representation, its just a matter of putting minus sign. We can always fall back to low level git-hash-object.

I'm just not sure if 'git commit' can work with dates prior to Unix epoch. I guess that git has some sanity checks that flies in the face of such ab)use of git.

Refrences: ========== [1] time(p) manpage [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch#Representing_the_number [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_t

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Jakub Narebski
Poland