Re: [PATCH] Allow the Unix epoch to be a valid commit date

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 5, 2009, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID: <7vljn3hqvg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090703043454.GA20080@dcvr.yhbt.net>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

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> It is common practice to use the Unix epoch as a fallback date
> when a suitable date is not available.  This is true of git svn
> and possibly other importing tools that import non-git history
> into git.
>
> Instead of clobbering established strtoul() error reporting
> semantics with our own, preserve the strtoul() error value
> of ULONG_MAX for fsck.c to handle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>

Makes sense.  Will queue.

Thanks.