Subject: Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:18:05 -0700 (PDT)

Sverre Rabbelier <[email-masked]> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 16:58, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > On 32bit:
> >
> > commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d
> > Author: The Philadelphia Convention <>
> > Date:   Wed Dec 31 19:59:59 1969 -0400
> >
> > On 64bit:
> >
> > commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d
> > Author: The Philadelphia Convention <>
> > Date:   Mon Sep 17 13:00:00 1787 -0400
> >
> > It would be useful to turn that into a TODO test for Git.
> 
> That's bad, if we can't store a particular date we should do something
> about it, not just silently underflow.

We can *store* it without problems, the problem is with
*interpretation* by porcelain (and some plumbing).

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Jakub Narebski
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