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Re: [PATCH] Make reflog query '@{1219188291}' act as '@{2008/08/19 16:24:51}'

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 19, 2008, 23:57 UTC
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> The value 1112911993 was chosen for the limit as it is the commit
> timestamp for e83c516331 "Initial revision of "git" ...". Any
> reflogs in existance should contain timestamps dated later than
> the date Linus first stored Git into itself, as reflogs came about
> quite a bit after that.
>
> Additionally a reflog with 1,112,911,993 record entries is also
> simply not valid.  Such a reflog would require at least 87 TB to
> store just the old and new SHA-1 values.  So our randomly chosen
> upper limit for @{nth} notation is "big enough" that users will
> not run into it by accident.

Hmm, would we want to apply that logic to replace the magic "8-digit" rule in date.c::match_digit()?

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  1. Make reflog query '@{1219188291}' act as '@{2008/08/19 16:24:51}'Shawn O. Pearce, Aug 19, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2008
  3. Shawn O. PearceAug 20, 2008
  4. Alex RiesenAug 20, 2008
  5. Shawn O. PearceAug 20, 2008
  6. Alex RiesenAug 20, 2008
  7. Shawn O. PearceAug 20, 2008
  8. Alex RiesenAug 20, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 20, 2008
  10. Shawn O. PearceAug 21, 2008

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