From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:26:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?
Message-ID: <CAMP44s3hpuxbo7mfKAD2trOkezPrV3nKYpNAzXOs3sQym102LQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121128001231.GA27971@thyrsus.com>

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
>> 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.
>
> So much for that idea, I guess.
>
> Unless..I don't know how git's database representations work.  Are they
> version-stamped in any way?  If so, some slightly painful hackery would
> get around that problem.

% git cat-file -p HEAD

You'll see exactly how git stores commits. Changing anything in there
must be done carefully.

-- 
Felipe Contreras