Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.9.1
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jul 13, 2016, 16:05 UTC
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- <20160713020132.GA13918@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Definitely keep that paragraph. I am quite familiar with the test > helper and it was not the outcome I initially expected. > >> +test_lazy_prereq 64BIT_TIME ' >> + case "$(test-date show:iso 9999999999)" in >> + *" -> 2038-"*) >> + # on this platform, unsigned long is 32-bit, i.e. not large enough >> + false > > I see you tightened up the match a little. TBH, I think we could > probably just match the whole output string, but I doubt there's much > chance of a false positive either way.
Ah, it wasn't meant to be a tightening; rather the above is for documentation value, i.e. make it stand out what 2038 we are matching---its answer being "the year portion of the result of the conversion".