On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: >> fsck_ident() in fsck.c rejects anything but " [1-9][0-9]* " after >> the author and committer ident (i.e. the timestamp has to be >> integral number of seconds since the epoch, not before it, nor >> with fractional seconds). > > Is this architecturally significant? It sounds like another > implementation detail. Well... if we added a fractional seconds to a commit, older versions of Git will scream loudly and refuse to work with the new commit. That would create a fork of Git. -- 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