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From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Thomas Bock <bockthom@cs.uni-saarland.de>, 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: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:02:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bbcfbc0-f9da-09ef-9441-5e4b13780841@github.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230418041253.GD60552@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 4/18/2023 12:12 AM, Jeff King wrote:

> One thing the commit graph perhaps _could_ do is omit the commit, or
> mark it as "this one is broken in some way". And then fall back to
> parsing those few instead (which is slower, but if it's a small minority
> of commits, that's OK). But I don't think there's any code for that.

The "broken" commit would need to be included in the commit-graph file
so its children can point to it using a graph position, but then it
would revert to parsing from the commit object (due to some new concept
storing "this is a bad commit").

If we decided to treat a timestamp of 0 as "probably broken, artificial
at best" then we wouldn't need the new indicator in the commit-graph
file, but this seems like quite a big hammer for a small case.

Thanks,
-Stolee

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-18 14:02 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
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 [this message]
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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