Re: bugreport: git does not like subseconds

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

quoted

Git does not like subseconds in $GIT_{AUTHOR,COMMITTER}_DATE,
and somehow does time travel instead. Perhaps this is a Glibc
limitation? Running openSUSE 11's glibc-2.8(which is actually
a 2.7 snapshot I think: glibc-2.8-2008042513.tar.bz2).

This should have been fixed by 9f2b6d2936a7c4bb3155de8efec7b10869ca935e 
("date/time: do not get confused by fractional seconds").

But maybe that hasn't made it into any release yet? It's in master, but 
maybe it never made it into stable? Junio?

No it didn't.

Actually I didn't even think of that as a bug, in the sense that git never
accepted fractional seconds and feeding such to git was a user error from
day one; iow, 9f2b6d2 (date/time: do not get confused by fractional
seconds, 2008-08-16) was an idiotproofing ;-)

But I'd agree perhaps we should cherry pick that one.