#998667 git-quick-stats: default _GIT_SINCE (epoch time) is incorrect

Package:
git-quick-stats
Source:
git-quick-stats
Submitter:
Vincent Lefevre
Date:
2021-11-05 23:45:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#998667#5
Date:
2021-11-05 23:41:12 UTC
From:
To:
_GIT_SINCE defaults to 2005-04-07, which is surprising
(for instance, GNU MPFR started in 1999).

Indeed, in the source:

# Beginning git log date. Respects all git datetime formats
# If $_GIT_SINCE is never set, choose epoch time as that is
# as far back as git will allow you to go
_since=${_GIT_SINCE:-}
if [[ -n "${_since}" ]]; then
    _since="--since=$_since"
else
    _since="--since=2005-04-07"
fi

But the epoch time is 1970-01-01, not 2005-04-07. It would be
better not to have a default limit, but I doubt that there are
git repositories with dates before 1970...