use uintmax_t for timestamps

Previously, we used `unsigned long` for timestamps. This was only a good choice on Linux, where we know implicitly that `unsigned long` is what is used for `time_t`. However, we want to use a different data type for timestamps for two reasons: - there is nothing that says that `unsigned long` should be the same data type as `time_t`, and indeed, on 64-bit Windows for example, it is not: `unsigned long` is 32-bit but `time_t` is 64-bit. - even on 32-bit Linux, where `unsigned long` (and thereby `time_t`) is 32-bit, we *want* to be able to encode timestamps in Git that are currently absurdly far in the future, *even if* the system library is not able to format those timestamps into date strings. So let's just switch to the maximal integer type available, which should be at least 64-bit for all practical purposes these days. It certainly cannot be worse than `unsigned long`, so... Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Johannes Schindelin committed Apr 26, 2017 at 21:29 UTC 28f4aee3fb1a45ebcda8ff84f94d6d2d0053f887
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git-compat-util.h
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@@ -319,10 +319,10 @@ extern char *gitdirname(char *);
319 #define PRIo32 "o"
320 #endif
321
322 -typedef unsigned long timestamp_t;
323 -#define PRItime "lu"
324 -#define parse_timestamp strtoul
325 -#define TIME_MAX ULONG_MAX
322 +typedef uintmax_t timestamp_t;
323 +#define PRItime PRIuMAX
324 +#define parse_timestamp strtoumax
325 +#define TIME_MAX UINTMAX_MAX
326
327 #ifndef PATH_SEP
328 #define PATH_SEP ':'