From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:49:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJtOqRHcjWH1F71Qc5zvPkUAe+u1RrcC2pt_xQwLSUY0yg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121127230419.GA26080@thyrsus.com>

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> fsck_ident() in fsck.c rejects anything but " [1-9][0-9]* " after
>> the author and committer ident (i.e. the timestamp has to be
>> integral number of seconds since the epoch, not before it, nor
>> with fractional seconds).
>
> Is this architecturally significant?  It sounds like another
> implementation detail.

Well... if we added a fractional seconds to a commit, older versions
of Git will scream loudly and refuse to work with the new commit. That
would create a fork of Git.