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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 2, 2010, 22:47 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy6coiqdt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3hbjcptyr.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

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?

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