Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] log: do not segfault on gmtime errors

From: Charles Bailey <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:05:59 +0000

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 02:49:05AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> +# date is within 2^63-1, but enough to choke glibc's gmtime
> +test_expect_success 'absurdly far-in-future dates produce sentinel' '
> +	commit=$(munge_author_date HEAD 999999999999999999) &&
> +	echo "Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +0000" >expect &&
> +	git log -1 --format=%ad $commit >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'

Git on AIX seems happy to convert this to Thu Oct 24 18:46:39
162396404 -0700. I don't know if this is correct for the given input
but the test fails.

Charles.