Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git
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Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
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- Aug 2, 2010, 18:41 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> $ git commit --author="The Philadelphia Convention <>" \ >> --date="Mon, 17 Sep 1787 12:00:00 EST" >> >> but that's not actually setting the commit date to 1787. >> >> Am I doing something wrong, or is Git (quite reasonably) unable to >> accept commit dates that far in the past? > > Its probably running into problems with time_t on your system being a > 32 bit value, and thus having trouble going before some time in 1901.
I was afraid of that. Oh, well.
Thanks, --Joel