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Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> And the klibc-repo was created with a patched git-commit to fake the
> commit date with the author date. :)
> 

In fact, I kind of wish we'd also made committer == author.

Since this whole thing is an import from another revision control 
system, one really wants that.  It's one of those very rare situations 
in which fudging the commit date is not only fully legitimate, but darn 
near required.

	-hpa