From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weird behavior of 'git log --before' or 'git log --date-order': Commits from 2011 are treated to be before 1980
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:40:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230417054032.GA26997@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <141f0f6b-ef5e-4470-b86f-7ebd6c2be3ab@app.fastmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 04:10:32PM +0200, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023, at 10:52, Jeff King wrote:
> > Of course it may also be reasonable to consider this mystery solved and
> > leave the code as-is. These objects _are_ malformed.
>
> I started to run `git-repair`[1] on the repository yesterday. I’m not
> sure yet if it will finish.[2]
I don't know if git-repair will fix syntactic problems in commits like
this, or if it's just looking for broken links between objects. But
regardless, it would be possible to fix these using filter-repo or other
tools.
The problem with repairing them is that it rewrites history, changing
the object id of every commit which comes after. So you'd want to do it
once centrally for the project, and declare a flag day that everybody is
moving over to the new, fixed history.
It's probably not worth it for a minor problem like this.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-17 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-14 11:37 Weird behavior of 'git log --before' or 'git log --date-order': Commits from 2011 are treated to be before 1980 Thomas Bock
2023-04-15 8:52 ` Jeff King
2023-04-15 8:59 ` Jeff King
2023-04-15 14:10 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17 5:40 ` Jeff King [this message]
2023-04-17 6:20 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17 7:41 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 22:32 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17 9:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-18 4:12 ` Jeff King
2023-04-18 14:02 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-21 14:51 ` Thomas Bock
2023-04-22 13:41 ` [PATCH 0/3] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Jeff King
2023-04-22 13:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe Jeff King
2023-04-22 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line Jeff King
2023-04-24 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-25 5:23 ` Jeff King
2023-04-24 16:39 ` [PATCH 0/3] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Junio C Hamano
2023-04-25 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2023-04-25 5:54 ` Jeff King
2023-04-25 5:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe Jeff King
2023-04-25 5:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line Jeff King
2023-04-25 5:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp Jeff King
2023-04-25 10:11 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-25 16:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 11:36 ` Jeff King
2023-04-26 15:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 8:13 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:14 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:14 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:17 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp Jeff King
2023-04-27 10:11 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-27 11:55 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-27 16:46 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 16:55 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 16:57 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:17 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] parse_commit(): describe more date-parsing failure modes Jeff King
2023-04-27 8:18 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Jeff King
2023-04-27 16:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 14:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp Phillip Wood
2023-04-26 14:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-04-26 14:44 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-25 5:55 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] parse_commit(): describe more date-parsing failure modes Jeff King
2023-04-22 13:52 ` Weird behavior of 'git log --before' or 'git log --date-order': Commits from 2011 are treated to be before 1980 Jeff King
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