On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 18:32, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd figured to play with Git in an unusual way: to create a repository > for the U.S. Constitution where amendments are presented as patches. > E.g., instead of the First Amendment being placed at the end (as is > usual) I'm putting it in Article 1, Section 9 (Limitations of Congress). > Proposed amendments get branches, which get merged in later. > > But I'm trying to get the dates right, and I'm missing something. For > example, I made the initial commit with the line As noted by Shawn time_t doesn't like ancient commits. But as an aside I'd like to ask where this project is being hosted. I've wanted to play with importing law into Git, and it would be interesting to follow this project. There's some Icelandic law currently enacted that hasn't been changed since the 1200s. Getting that into Git would be interesting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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