Re: git repo port issues?

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 <yuri@FreeBSD.org>  2023-01-03 14:49:38 +0000
> committer Yuri Victorovich <yuri@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