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Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 27, 2012, 22:06 UTC
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> JGit would fortunately ignore a floating point timestamp specification
> if given in a commit, but I don't know about other Git
> implementations... like say git. :-)

fsck_ident() in fsck.c rejects anything but " [1-9][0-9]* " after the author and committer ident (i.e. the timestamp has to be integral number of seconds since the epoch, not before it, nor with fractional seconds).

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