From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:10:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4847917A.2050700@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806050523120.21190@racer>
Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:
>
>>> - as has been pointed out several times now, you _are_ the committer,
>>> and you seem to want to lie there.
>> Lying is already possible with GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME,EMAIL,NAME}
>> environment variables.
>
> Of course it is possible! I even pointed to a method!
>
> The _point_ was that we do not want to recommend it. And giving prominent
> support for it, such as introducing a command line parameter, _would_
> have the effect of recommending it.
Furthermore, if you mess with committer dates, you can screw up revision
walking to some degree. committer dates aren't merely informational.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-05 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 14:59 [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates Jaroslav Kysela
2008-06-03 20:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-04 9:16 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-06-04 10:29 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-04 11:12 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-04 12:29 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-06-04 14:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-06-04 15:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-05 1:03 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-06-05 4:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-05 5:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-05 7:10 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-06-05 12:44 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-06-05 13:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-05 13:38 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-06-05 13:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-05 14:11 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-06-05 14:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-05 15:16 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-06-05 16:34 ` Boaz Harrosh
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