René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > I can't think of many ways to get future time stamps (broken clock, > broken CMOS battery, bit rot, time travel), so I wouldn't expect a > change towards better error reporting to affect a lot of users. (Not > necessarily as part of this series, of course.) Better error reporting is one thing, but we do not want to kill "git log" in the middle by calling die(). Dropping the patch v4 9/9 that caused us to call die() was a good thing to do within the scope of this series, I would think.