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[94.21.146.170]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-4255d8f01a0sm31220769f8f.48.2025.10.08.13.41.24 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 22:41:23 +0200 From: SZEDER =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= To: Kristoffer Haugsbakk Cc: Phillip Wood , Johannes Sixt , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: How dangerous is --committer-date-is-author-date these days? Message-ID: References: <6af09726-e3bf-4903-87ae-9524ad334678@kdbg.org> <6d6b2ff0-b4e4-4442-a3be-9b31742db280@gmail.com> <93041214-4774-49eb-b8bd-24648134cded@app.fastmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <93041214-4774-49eb-b8bd-24648134cded@app.fastmail.com> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 04:49:32PM +0200, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote: > As a Git user, I don’t understand why some people want to fiddle with > this field in rewrite operations. It’s very hidden (apparently you have > to use something like `git log --format=fuller` to reveal it). FWIW, GitHub and similar sites display only the committer date. > I can’t speak for power users. But regular users? Well I see questions > about being very deliberate about setting this field on rewrite > operations on StackOverflow (at least one time). But I can only guess > *why* they are particular about it (this part is often not explained). Perhaps they prefer to see the author date even on GitHub, and try to work around its shortcomings.