On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:33:59PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
> That being said, is the AIX value actually right? I did not look closely
> at first, but just assumed that it was vaguely right. But:
>
> 999999999999999999 / (86400 * 365)
>
> is something like 31 billion years in the future, not 160 million.
> A real date calculation will have a few tweaks (leap years, etc), but
> that is orders of magnitude off.
Well, this is embarrassing, while moving this through the corporate
firewall (aka typing on one machine while looking at another), I
munged the date. It still doesn't seem right but at least you can now
see the actual data.
I stopped the test with --immediate and found the dangling commit that
the test created and dumped it with the previous version of Git (well
a 1.8.5.5 build)
ibm: trash directory.t4212-log-corrupt $ git log -1 --pretty=raw 1fc17e734e4487c31bdfe05bb3d15618b69c4dca
commit 1fc17e734e4487c31bdfe05bb3d15618b69c4dca
tree 64fd3796c57084e7b8cbae358ce37970b8e954f6
author A U Thor <author@xxxxxxxxxxx> 999999999999999999 -0700
committer C O Mitter <committer@xxxxxxxxxxx> 1112911993 -0700
foo
ibm: trash directory.t4212-log-corrupt $ git log -1 1fc17e734e4487c31bdfe05bb3d15618b69c4dca
commit 1fc17e734e4487c31bdfe05bb3d15618b69c4dca
Author: A U Thor <author@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 24 18:46:39 1623969404 -0700
foo
Same commit but dumped from a linux machine:
linux: trash directory.t4212-log-corrupt $ git log -1 1fc17e734e4487c31bdfe05bb3d15618b69c4dca
commit 1fc17e734e4487c31bdfe05bb3d15618b69c4dca
Author: A U Thor <author@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: (null)
foo
Charles.
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