On: The Go language's first commit (1972)

[chrisseaton]

A date is just a number in a file. You can create Git commits with any date you want.

[rgoulter → chrisseaton]

For the sake of interest, not quite any date.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-...

e.g. this repo which represented the US constitution in a Git repository couldn't use the actual dates it wanted to. https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution#who-made-...

[samatman → rgoulter]

Yes and this actually matters.

Not allowing the creation of repos of historical data with correct timestamps is a bad design decision, not an inevitability.