Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> There is room for new headers, and older versions of git will ignore
>> them. You could add a new "committer-timestamp" field that elaborates on
>> the timestamp included on the committer line. Newer versions of git
>> would respect it, and older versions would fall back to using the
>> committer timestamp.
>>
>> But I really wonder if anybody actually cares about adding sub-second
>> timestamp support, or if it is merely "because SVN has it".
>
> Roundtrip conversions may benefit from sub-second timestamps, but
> personally I think negative timestamps are more interesting and of
> practical use.  Prehistoric projects need them even if they intend
> to switch to Git, never to go back to their original tarballs and
> collection of RCS ,v files.
>
> And if we were to add "committer-timestamp" and friends to support
> negative timestamps anyway (because older tools will not support
> them), supporting sub-second part might be something we want to
> think about at the same time.