Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Currently, Git's source code represents all timestamps as `unsigned > long`. In preparation for using a more appropriate data type, let's > introduce a symbol `parse_timestamp` (currently being defined to > `strtoul`) where appropriate, so that we can later easily switch to, > say, use `strtoull()` instead. Apparently a very good first step in this series.