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

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 6, 2010, 15:19 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinXtjn7=9jRNmv4zhhPiy3NVOca0gY9dkYCUhY7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikJP2d5_pA+RcQeToE+RGW0oBhcZyghLfqDoJ8E@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 15:18, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 21:37, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It's up, at <http://github.com/jcsalomon/constitution>, with one commit.
>>>
>>> I'm curious to find out if folks with 64-bit time_t get the correct
>>> author and commit times.
>>
>> On 32bit:
>>
>> commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d
>> Author: The Philadelphia Convention <>
>> Date:   Wed Dec 31 19:59:59 1969 -0400
>>
>> On 64bit:
>>
>> commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d
>> Author: The Philadelphia Convention <>
>> Date:   Mon Sep 17 13:00:00 1787 -0400
>
> Cool, it works!  (The 13:00 should have been 12:00, but there's some
> DST weirdness at work.)
>
> Can you check what git-fsck has to say about the repos, on 32- &
> 64-bit machines?

32bit says:

    error in commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d: invalid
author/committer line

64 bit doesn't give any warning at all.