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Re: Is there way to set git commit --date to be older than 1970 ?

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Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Date
Oct 29, 2014, 19:19 UTC
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 07:49:19PM +0100, Peter Vojtek wrote:
> I am playing with git in slightly unusual manner - e.g., to use git to
> store history of europe:

Actually you're the second person I hear that is trying to use git as a timeline of some sort. The previous person had the exact same problem. Unfortunately I couldn't find a mailthread about it in the archives.

I'm curious, why did you choose git for this? Maybe this is a use case we should consider?

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