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

[Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:
>
>> I've a big set of patches in a mbox file: there's sufficient info inside
>> for git-am to work.
>>
>> Yet, each time I do import these, my sha1sums are changing because of
>> different commit dates.
>>
>> I'd like to force the commit date to match the info/date from the time I
>> received the email (and therefore always get back the right sha1sums).
>>
>> is this possible ?
>
> Have you tried setting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE to the given date?

yes, I did. This is what I want to change: I can fix the same
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE for all patches in the mbox, but I really want +
                   GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=GIT_AUTHOR_DATE


>
> Alternatively, you can always use a commit-message filter with
> filter-branch to fix it up.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>

I'm curious if this could be done: the problem I quickly faced was
that this approach would double the amount of commits.

So I'm eager to test Junio's patch :)

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