From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:44:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Commits with ancient timestamps
Message-ID: <87mx90yz5y.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1328218903-5681-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

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.)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch