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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by shanecoin on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:10PM (#21338451)
The best part of this repository is that the authors and the commit dates reflect the true date of the event:

  James Ashley authored and JesseKPhillips committed on Dec 6, 1986

  8th Congress authored and JesseKPhillips committed on Jun 15, 1980
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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by Mathnerd314 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:15PM (#21338503)
Honestly it seems like one of the worst parts, that the dates are limited by UNIX timestamps and aren't flexible enough to store the dates from centuries ago.
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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by the8472 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:19PM (#21338544)
they do when you use signed 64bit timestamps (or 128bit ones if you need the nanos)
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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by Mathnerd314 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:08PM (#21339044)
Apparently it's technically possible in Git as of a year or two ago, with some conversion bugs probably still lurking, but Github/Gitlab still don't support it. And the frontend tools like "git commit" don't support it. The project in this answer is using git hash-object to create the commit from raw bytes. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-...
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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by kzrdude on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:39PM (#21338754)
Unfortunately git rejects dates before 1970, at least when I set them using GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by pault on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @06:13PM (#21339628)
This is especially troublesome when you need to cover up those 50 years of procrastination on a project.
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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by smitty1e on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @10:53PM (#21341253)
You say 'procrastination' I say 'The means IS the end, yo!'.
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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by he_the_great on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:37AM (#21370363)
No the dates are wrong, and the conversation used is stupid.
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