Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote: > > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes: > > > But there was a second problem. Once the parsing had misbehaved, Len > > managed to create a commit which was six months in the future: > > > > commit 8313524a0d466f451a62709aaedf988d8257b21c > > Author: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> > > Date: Tue Oct 3 00:00:00 2006 -0400 > > > > ACPI: ACPICA 20060310 > > > > Will your fix prevent that from happening? If not, perhaps some basic > > sanity checking might be appropriate. > > You _might_ get an e-mail to fix kernel problems from yourself > in the future, in which case you would want to commit with > future author date, like this ;-). > > People would often deal with dates in the past (way in the past > when talking about importing foreign SCM history), but probably > it would never make sense to do dates way into the future. I'll > think about it. > Well it doesn't have to be fatal, of course. Some "do you really want to do this [y/n]?" prompt, with a command option to override it. Or simply print a big warning. Whatever. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Apr 05 16:42:21 2006
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