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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:31:02 +0200
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
To: Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@...il.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Sam James <sam@...too.org>,
	Joey Hess <id@...yh.name>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>,
	Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de>,
	Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>, xz@...aani.org
Subject: Re: Analysis on who is Jia Tan, and who he could work
 for, reading xz.git

Hi Jacob,

Thanks to your script, I've found a mistake in my analysis of the
timestamps.

The commit dates in +0200 recently seem to be because Jia Tan rebased
some commits from Lasse, and used --committer-date-is-author-date.

	commit 3007e74ef250f0ce95d97ffbdf2282284f93764d
	Author:     Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
	AuthorDate: Tue Mar 5 23:21:26 2024 +0200
	Commit:     Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
	CommitDate: Tue Mar 5 23:23:16 2024 +0200

	commit 6e97b299f1b22e366ec42ba5dc5b9d0746e87b84
	Author:     Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
	AuthorDate: Tue Mar 5 23:21:26 2024 +0200
	Commit:     Jia Tan <jiat0218@...il.com>
	CommitDate: Tue Mar 5 23:21:26 2024 +0200

$ git describe --all --contains 3007e74ef250f0ce95d97ffbdf2282284f93764d
master~37
$ git describe --all --contains 6e97b299f1b22e366ec42ba5dc5b9d0746e87b84
tags/v5.6.1~9

The other three commits have a similar story.  So it was a red herring.
Then, all of Jia's actions have consistently been in +0800.


Now I'm using your scripts to collect data from several projects where I
work, to compare with data points that I know well.


Have a lovely day!
Alex

-- 
<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>

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