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The best part of this repository is that the authors and the commit dates reflect the true date of the event: James Ashley authored and JesseKPhillips commit

• Mathnerd314 7y ago
  Honestly it seems like one of the worst parts, that the dates are limited by UNIX timestamps and aren't flexible enough to store the dates from centuries ago.
  • the8472 7y ago
    they do when you use signed 64bit timestamps (or 128bit ones if you need the nanos)
    • kzrdude 7y ago
      Unfortunately git rejects dates before 1970, at least when I set them using GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
      • pault 7y ago
        This is especially troublesome when you need to cover up those 50 years of procrastination on a project.
        • smitty1e 7y ago
          You say 'procrastination' I say 'The means IS the end, yo!'.
    • Mathnerd314 7y ago
      Apparently it's technically possible in Git as of a year or two ago, with some conversion bugs probably still lurking, but Github/Gitlab still don't support it. And the frontend tools like "git commit" don't support it. The project in this answer is using git hash-object to create the commit from raw bytes. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-to-set-a-git-commit-to-have-a-timestamp-prior-to-1970 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-...
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• he_the_great 7y ago
  No the dates are wrong, and the conversation used is stupid.