From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: how to force a commit date matching info from a mbox ? Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:25 -0500 Message-ID: <20090124005225.GA9864@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <7vwscm1nic.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vljt26fp9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <46d6db660901221441q60eb90bdge601a7a250c3a247@mail.gmail.com> <20090123094529.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> <20090123172646.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> <7vtz7qxsxc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090123222906.GC11328@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Nanako Shiraishi , git list , Christian MICHON To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 24 01:54:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQWmr-0004m9-V8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:54:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753547AbZAXAwa (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753527AbZAXAwa (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:30 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:41716 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752886AbZAXAw3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:29 -0500 Received: (qmail 12821 invoked by uid 107); 24 Jan 2009 00:52:36 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTPA; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:36 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:25 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:34:41AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > So good to know, and I will start generating my patches differently. > > Note that your patches will not be found using Pasky's "mail" link in > gitweb, if you do not put the commit subject into the _real_ mail subject. > > Dunno if I like that. I think that is not a new problem. Quite a few patches are "how about this" patches in the middle of a thread, and leave the old subject. IMHO, that is a failing of the tool in not tracking common practice, not the other way around. -Peff