Re: [PATCH v4 8/9] Use uintmax_t for timestamps
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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- Apr 26, 2017, 09:32 UTC
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Hi Junio,
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes: > > > In any case, it is a question unrelated to the work I performed in > > this patch series: the raison d'être of these patches is to allow > > timestamps to refer to dates that are currently insanely far in the > > future. > > Yes, but the job of the maintainer is to prevent narrow-focused > individual contributors from throwing us into a hole we cannot dig out > of by closing the door for plausible future enhancements.
You make it sound as if I made the code stricter in any way, or even introduced a check that was not there before.
As I did no such thing, you may want to reword your statement?
Ciao, Dscho