From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Q about the date format in "git commit --date=..." and such
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:16:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110308011646.GA21278@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzkp6zclw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:20:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > That being said, with --reset-author I have never needed --date, so I
> > don't personally care if it gets done or not.
>
> In short, should I take that the resolution of this issue is "I didn't
> know about --reset-author and asking for --date=loose was an X-Y problem"?
>
> I agree with you that we would not want to loosen the specification side
> (i.e. "commit --date=" as opposed to the selector side "log --since=")
> unless we absolutely have to.
It is up to Dirk to say whether it solves his particular problem or not.
But thinking on it more, --date=now does encourage a bit of a wrong
workflow. Why would you be resetting the date but _not_ taking
ownership? Maybe a reasonable situation for that exists, but I couldn't
think of one.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 16:07 Q about the date format in "git commit --date=..." and such Dirk Süsserott
2011-03-07 16:54 ` Jeff King
2011-03-08 0:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-08 1:16 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-03-08 18:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-08 19:20 ` Dirk Süsserott
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