On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 07:13:35PM +0000, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: > https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/ > > The latest update to "main" is : > > author Yuri Victorovich <y...@freebsd.org> 2023-01-03 14:49:38 +0000 > committer Yuri Victorovich <y...@freebsd.org> 2023-01-03 14:49:38 +0000 > > I.e. A year old. Reading the commit message, it does appear to be a wrong > clock, rather than an old message, but whilst the author date is local to > the author, I thought the commit date was centralised. > > If nothing else, this does seem to bugger up "commits since <date>" > within git itself.
Nothing about dates is centralized in git, but some server side checks could be implemented on CommitDate. IMO we should require that CommitDate be >= the previous one and less than "now". -- Brooks
