Re: Is there way to set git commit --date to be older than 1970 ?

From: Roberto Eduardo Decurnex Gorosito <decurnex.roberto@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2014, 20:03 UTC
Message-ID: <CABj5xzcigToDam4JGG9POkaZPh8V=ptEW_F8AO621HA0vCqM8A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh9ymy8np.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Peter,

You should be happy of getting the error message.

 Since Git 2 invalid years will default to the current year (keeping
the given day and month) without warnings.

-- Roberto Decurnex

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Peter Vojtek <peter.vojtek@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It seems the commit date can be between 1970 and 2100 (on my 32bit
>> linux),...
>
> The underlying data representation records time as number of seconds
> since epoch (1970-01-01).  Theoretically the codepaths that read
> data could consider negative timestamps to represent times before
> the epoch, but in the context of source code control, negative
> values are more likely to be an indication of a bug or a user
> mistake, and I do not think any existing code in Git is prepared to
> pass such a timestamp as a sane value---instead they diagnose a
> failure and die.
>
>> I understand that this is rather an esoteric use case :)
>
> Yeah, this is pretty much outside of what we intend to support.
>
> Thanks.
>
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