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From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to force a commit date matching info from a mbox ?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:08:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46d6db660901230008q418f3d3bsc68ca4e9d675cb36@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vljt26fp9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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 ?
>
> "am" being a tool to accept patches written in some past to faithfully
> record both author timestamp and committer timestamp, what you seem to
> want is outside of the current scope of the tool.
>
> A patch to butcher "git-am" to copy GIT_COMMITTER_DATE from
> GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and export it should be trivial to implement, though.
>
> Perhaps something like this totally untested patch.
>

I love this idea. I'll try to test it asap. Thanks!

-- 
Christian
--
http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-23  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-22 22:41 how to force a commit date matching info from a mbox ? Christian MICHON
2009-01-23  0:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-23  8:08   ` Christian MICHON [this message]
2009-01-23  8:51     ` Christian MICHON
2009-01-23  0:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-23  8:07   ` Christian MICHON
2009-01-23  0:45 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-01-23  7:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-23  8:26   ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-01-23  9:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-23 22:29       ` Jeff King
2009-01-24  0:34         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-24  0:52           ` Jeff King
2009-01-24  1:43             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-24  2:35               ` Jeff King
2009-01-23  9:52     ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-01-23 17:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-23 12:38     ` [PATCH] git-am: Add --ignore-date option Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-23 13:17       ` Adeodato Simó

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