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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git interactive rebase 'consume' command
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:49:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130121014910.GA4792@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8v7nli2a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:23:41PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> In any case, the intent of the author timestamp is to record the
> time the author _started_ working on the change and came up with an
> initial, possibly a partial, draft.  It does not record the time
> when the commit was finalized.  "git commit --amend" preserves the
> original timestamp, doesn't it?

And we have "--reset-author" if you want to do that. It seems like just
doing "git commit --amend --reset-author" at the end[1] would solve the
original problem.  Perhaps that is something that we could better
support directly from the instruction sheet.

-Peff

[1] or after an "edit" break in the instruction sheet, if it is in the
    middle of a set of commits

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-21  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-20 14:05 git interactive rebase 'consume' command Stephen Kelly
2013-01-20 14:17 ` John Keeping
2013-01-20 14:23   ` Stephen Kelly
2013-01-20 19:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-20 19:13   ` Stephen Kelly
2013-01-20 20:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21  1:49       ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-01-21  8:40       ` Stephen Kelly
2013-01-21 11:05 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-01-21 19:05   ` Stephen Kelly

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