From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:52:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 8/9] Use uintmax_t for timestamps
Message-ID: <xmqqvapsszoo.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1704252208520.3480@virtualbox>

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.