Hi, On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Jörn Hees <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > it seems that if you use the 1.8.3.4 remote-helpers/git-remote-hg to clone a mercurial repo the timezone information of commits gets transformed into your current timezone. > (command: git clone hg::…) > > I noticed this when a colleague in another timezone used Kiln to also export the same mercurial repo that i had cloned from git before. > Fetching from his git repo gives me a "second root tree" with all commits duplicated. > A git show of two equivalent commit reveals that the Date: line of the commits changed. > Tracking this back into the original mercurial repo reveals that _his_ times are correct. > > This will also make two or more clones from different timezones all using the same hg remote repo incompatible! > > > Example: > Original mercurial commit (timezone: -7200 = -4h) > https://bitbucket.org/lipis/gae-init/commits/a43078f90e727a13767cf14c740157763fb423b5/raw/ > > Lipis git export via Kiln: (-4h) > https://github.com/lipis/gae-init/commit/36b7cabf03fbba784cc41b63430433e9fc79ca8c > > My export via git clone hg::ssh://hg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/lipis/gae-init (+2h) > https://github.com/joernhees/git-hg-remote-bug_gae-init/commit/8341bf10f1f0a7a924717a8a2c1770f61acd51ae Actually our version is the correct one: % hg commit -m one -d "2012-04-28 11:28 +0200" % hg export # HG changeset patch # User Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> # Date 1335605280 -7200 # Sat Apr 28 11:28:00 2012 +0200 -- Felipe Contreras -- 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