Re: git push hook to check for outdated timestamps

On 06/12/2015 09:31 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Could we update our git hook to refuse a push of a new commit whose
> timestamp is more than, say, 24 hours in the past? Our commit history
> has some timestamps in it now that are over a month off, and it's
> really easy to do, because when you rebase a commit, it keeps the old
> timestamp. If you then merge or cherry-pick that into an official
> branch rather than patch + commit, you end up with this problem unless
> you are careful to fix it by hand. It would be nice to prevent
> further mistakes of this sort, as they create confusion.
>

+1.

I think 24 hours is probably fairly generous, but in principle this
seems right - the timestamp would ideally be pretty close to the time it
hits the public tree.

cheers

andrew