Dnia wtorek 3. sierpnia 2010 00:47, Junio C Hamano napisał: > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The headers inside commit (and tag) objects are stored in text form, > > so they are not limited to 32-bit value. You would have to use system > > that has 64-bit time_t, or patch git. > > I thought the internal representation of our time was "unsigned long", no? > How can you represent anything before Unix epoch? time_t is signed long. Besides, git uses textual representation, its just a matter of putting minus sign. We can always fall back to low level git-hash-object. I'm just not sure if 'git commit' can work with dates prior to Unix epoch. I guess that git has some sanity checks that flies in the face of such ab)use of git. Refrences: ========== [1] time(p) manpage [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch#Representing_the_number [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_t -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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