Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes: > But there was a second problem. Once the parsing had misbehaved, Len > managed to create a commit which was six months in the future: > > commit 8313524a0d466f451a62709aaedf988d8257b21c > Author: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Oct 3 00:00:00 2006 -0400 > > ACPI: ACPICA 20060310 > > Will your fix prevent that from happening? If not, perhaps some basic > sanity checking might be appropriate. You _might_ get an e-mail to fix kernel problems from yourself in the future, in which case you would want to commit with future author date, like this ;-). People would often deal with dates in the past (way in the past when talking about importing foreign SCM history), but probably it would never make sense to do dates way into the future. I'll think about it. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html