Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit-graph: fix writing generations with dates exceeding 34 bits

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:56:30 +0100

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 12:39:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > this fixes a regression recently introduced by myself in 024b4c9697
> > (commit: make `repo_parse_commit_no_graph()` more robust, 2026-02-16).
> > The regression was found by GitLab's tests suite, see [1].
> 
> Curious.  GitLab's test suite runs pretending that it is way past
> year 2600 or something?  

No, but one of the test repositories that we're running tests with [1]
contains such a commit.

Patrick

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-test