Hi Junio,

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > In any case, it is a question unrelated to the work I performed in
> > this patch series: the raison d'être of these patches is to allow
> > timestamps to refer to dates that are currently insanely far in the
> > future.
> 
> Yes, but the job of the maintainer is to prevent narrow-focused
> individual contributors from throwing us into a hole we cannot dig out
> of by closing the door for plausible future enhancements.

You make it sound as if I made the code stricter in any way, or even
introduced a check that was not there before.

As I did no such thing, you may want to reword your statement?

Ciao,
Dscho