Re: Corrupted (?) commit 6e6db85e confusing gitk

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 2, 2007, 21:47 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wa4vkev.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712021322580.8458@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> The next issue would be to find who could pass an empty GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
>> without noticing...
>
> In the meantime, here's a not-very-well-tested patch to fsck to at least 
> notice this.

Thanks.

I recall that the very initial git did not use the current format for timestamp but ctime() return value, and this will also notice them (and convert-objects will be there for us).