timestamp_t: a new data type for timestamps

Git's source code assumes that unsigned long is at least as precise as
time_t. Which is incorrect, and causes a lot of problems, in particular
where unsigned long is only 32-bit (notably on Windows, even in 64-bit
versions).

So let's just use a more appropriate data type instead. In preparation
for this, we introduce the new `timestamp_t` data type.

By necessity, this is a very, very large patch, as it has to replace all
timestamps' data type in one go.

As we will use a data type that is not necessarily identical to `time_t`,
we need to be very careful to use `time_t` whenever we interact with the
system functions, and `timestamp_t` everywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index 24fb0c7906..587d48371b 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ static void add_rfc2047(struct strbuf *sb, const char *line, size_t len,
 const char *show_ident_date(const struct ident_split *ident,
 			    const struct date_mode *mode)
 {
-	unsigned long date = 0;
+	timestamp_t date = 0;
 	long tz = 0;
 
 	if (ident->date_begin && ident->date_end)