Allow the Unix epoch to be a valid commit date

It is common practice to use the Unix epoch as a fallback date
when a suitable date is not available.  This is true of git svn
and possibly other importing tools that import non-git history
into git.

Instead of clobbering established strtoul() error reporting
semantics with our own, preserve the strtoul() error value
of ULONG_MAX for fsck.c to handle.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fsck.c b/fsck.c
index 511b82cba..89278c145 100644
--- a/fsck.c
+++ b/fsck.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int fsck_commit(struct commit *commit, fsck_error error_func)
 	struct commit_graft *graft;
 	int parents = 0;
 
-	if (!commit->date)
+	if (commit->date == ULONG_MAX)
 		return error_func(&commit->object, FSCK_ERROR, "invalid author/committer line");
 
 	if (memcmp(buffer, "tree ", 5))