Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 16:00, Brandon Casey
[off-list ref] wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 15:18, Joel C. Salomon [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 21:37, Joel C. Salomon [off-list ref] wrote:

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It's up, at <http://github.com/jcsalomon/constitution>, with one commit.

I'm curious to find out if folks with 64-bit time_t get the correct
author and commit times.

On 32bit:

commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d
Author: The Philadelphia Convention <>
Date:   Wed Dec 31 19:59:59 1969 -0400

On 64bit:

commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d
Author: The Philadelphia Convention <>
Date:   Mon Sep 17 13:00:00 1787 -0400

Cool, it works!  (The 13:00 should have been 12:00, but there's some
DST weirdness at work.)

Can you check what git-fsck has to say about the repos, on 32- &
64-bit machines?

32bit says:

    error in commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d: invalid
author/committer line

64 bit doesn't give any warning at all.

I don't think you're using the latest git.

Guilty as charged. It's a Debian 1.7.1 git.

I get this on 64 bit:

  error in commit 826a4f7721fe1c3963a733ecbc5422f05925af5d: invalid author/committer line - bad date

This is triggered by the negative sign '-' in front of the time
field which is not one of 0123456789.  See fsck.c line 244.

-brandon