From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM, RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_DKIM_INVALID shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08E9207E4 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1434557AbdDZB4q (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:56:46 -0400 Received: from mail-pg0-f43.google.com ([74.125.83.43]:35685 "EHLO mail-pg0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1434528AbdDZB4o (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:56:44 -0400 Received: by mail-pg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id 72so36426098pge.2 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:56:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=C2H7ZPlEQLWgmc2H0gkk/CXtls95i4Iq+3SHMyhZawI=; b=uhl4fIfFW1fw9mNLXuB748rdYjJbk6wsIEEtanKxt7RVnrBjLuhqiezVMZGn7P/BND N8Ar+83SnoeukAWYeZO73yv2ABMCwhZf7jm8p6Odn6ljPX6fBnvgPc/1wFMCUZLOrpX8 5GbUuR/6XWtUKa4OcBoqhVchqoFGs1z+IbJaWCDA0uH2tPvAYdEv24hjCCdwBfHGu0z9 NpWNHHpAnSmfcyEZXreCSJ0iNiRChLkql09undqy38baYrO9BoRMUd4NEGyEycozqtzh ufmIYF2rFCKD8mAlORRhwouS1VbDbn4xuDnbLEWvaZqieyHciNfSUu2gC/2sz7tFmhMW 9eFw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=C2H7ZPlEQLWgmc2H0gkk/CXtls95i4Iq+3SHMyhZawI=; b=crRTs/bx66R9Qrao7yARlD6Y7UGOVbQdy3DO+yt8TT7W45kkVL8Va2y7kFlZ+X/h53 deR5l5qHGoYOGuJwj35hi76iorRIHJCjiXucsYXnGvgjw0xafNo8z8nvt48nXCf7zGz7 I4vGSxKIhFwaJc01Xata7CGH7nLPjQDwDRtTR9gzAEefNSTofc4l/y9rsKMDeufutYXj Do0/kLcL2VkMGssCtnshI0Le08auwpDLyJ2gNYY+i/R+wfaTnJHMJrf0k8laKHm7nSiW NLQEiaPmVthJa2KqyNXeXyvHw7CQOns8TqJykhyklE5BWHIG6POcruvXZrAG0WAc9qZy tGXQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/5S/JrJ0QzBEGcdGLwHdu47yHDzIvda02dACun45Eu5q+hcZFdN PwoFKYmG3tDjWQ== X-Received: by 10.98.37.198 with SMTP id l189mr30262568pfl.38.1493171804040; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([2620:0:1000:8622:3179:d004:20b:b383]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t69sm38559590pfa.81.2017.04.25.18.56.43 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:56:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: =?utf-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9?= Scharfe Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org, Torsten =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce timestamp_t for timestamps References: <7a2271ff-1386-18a6-5f6d-7eb13dc92509@web.de> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:56:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: <7a2271ff-1386-18a6-5f6d-7eb13dc92509@web.de> (=?utf-8?Q?=22R?= =?utf-8?Q?en=C3=A9?= Scharfe"'s message of "Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:54:46 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org René Scharfe writes: > I can't think of many ways to get future time stamps (broken clock, > broken CMOS battery, bit rot, time travel), so I wouldn't expect a > change towards better error reporting to affect a lot of users. (Not > necessarily as part of this series, of course.) Better error reporting is one thing, but we do not want to kill "git log" in the middle by calling die(). Dropping the patch v4 9/9 that caused us to call die() was a good thing to do within the scope of this series, I would think.