Re: how to force a commit date matching info from a mbox ?

[Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>]

Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

>> --->8---
>> Subject: [PATCH] git-am: Add --ignore-date option
>
> Good.
>
> Leaving "Subject: " in saves me typing, because I do not have to insert it
> manually when editing the submitted patch in my MUA to chop off everything
> before the scissors.

I am sorry to ask you a stupid question, but do you mean you want to have
"Subject: " there, or do you mean you want me to leave that word out?

> I think it would work equally well if you somehow manage to pass this
> through "git-rebase", but this won't work with "git-rebase --interactive".

I can try to change git-rebase if you want, but I do not think I can
modify git-rebase --interactive.  The script looked very scary last time I
looked at it (^_^;;;).

>> +test_expect_success 'am --ignore-date' '
>> +	git checkout first &&
>> +	test_tick &&
>> +	git am --ignore-date patch1 &&
>> +	git cat-file commit HEAD | sed -e "/^$/q" >head1 &&
>> +	at=$(sed -ne "/^author /s/.*> //p" head1) &&
>> +	echo "$at" | grep "+0000"
>> +'
>
> This is a convoluted logic.
>
> The committer and author dates are set to -0700 timezone by test_tick,
> while TZ is set to UTC (+0000) by test-lib.sh, and you are taking
> advantage of them to see which one is being used.
>
> But I do not think of a better way to do this offhand, so I'll let it
> pass.
>
> Regarding the "date -R" thing, I think we can take advantage of the fact
> that an empty GIT_AUTHOR_DATE (and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE) means "do not use
> this environment variable, but use the current date instead".  Something
> like this patch on top of yours, whose first hunk reverts your change to
> use "date -R", and sets GIT_AUTHOR_DATE to empty when --ignore-date is
> asked for.
>
> No, I didn't test it.

I did, and it works.

Thank you very much.

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Nanako Shiraishi
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