FYI: SVN to GIT converter currently broken, github is falling behind

[Shane Ambler]

On 08/11/2015 21:36, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:

> Here's the same commit, and the difference between 1.8 and 1.9:
>
> % git cat-file commit 803795d
> tree 7fc83aba022834da5c218114b09ad4640735bcc0
> parent c96fb0418e545a569b5975b4d878a30a948c29d5
> author olgeni <olgeni at FreeBSD.org> 1437203525 +0000
> committer olgeni <olgeni at FreeBSD.org> 1437203525 +0000
>
> Upgrade to version 0.4.1.
> % git cat-file commit 61ca43b
> tree 7fc83aba022834da5c218114b09ad4640735bcc0
> parent c96fb0418e545a569b5975b4d878a30a948c29d5
> author olgeni <olgeni at FreeBSD.org> 1437203529 +0000
> committer olgeni <olgeni at FreeBSD.org> 1437203529 +0000
>
> Upgrade to version 0.4.1.
>
>
> In case you don't see it, there's a 4s difference in the timestamps
> for authoring and committing. Here's the original:
>
> % svn log -vc392405 svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r392405 | olgeni | 2015-07-18 09:12:05 +0200 (Sat, 18 Jul 2015) | 2 lines
> Changed paths:
>     M /head/www/elixir-maru/Makefile
>     M /head/www/elixir-maru/distinfo
>
> Upgrade to version 0.4.1.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So yeah, svn 1.9 returned a timestamp that was off by 4s. WTF?
>

4 seconds??
There have been 4 leap seconds added this century.
Did 1.9 add timestamp corrections relating to leap seconds?

Did the developer not use leapsecs when the svn server does?


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