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Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Commits with ancient timestamps

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Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date
Feb 3, 2012, 10:44 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> avoid misinterpreting human-written timestamp in other formats, and
> timestamps before 1975 do not have enough number of digits in them.
>
> Here is a two-patch series that may improve the situation.

Doing this just makes me wonder how important exactly the 1970-1975 range is. Is there a notable software history from that era that can be recovered?

(Your [1/2] does not seem to parse negative offsets from the unix epoch, so anything before 1970 is still out.)

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. 0/2 Commits with ancient timestampsJunio C Hamano, Feb 2, 2012
  2. 1/2 parse_date(): allow ancient git-timestampJunio C Hamano, Feb 2, 2012
  3. 2/2 parse_date(): '@' prefix forces git-timestampJunio C Hamano, Feb 2, 2012
  4. Thomas RastFeb 3, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2012
  6. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 3, 2012

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