From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Q about the date format in "git commit --date=..." and such
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:51:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vcztqwcr.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110308011646.GA21278@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:16:46 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Why would you be resetting the date but _not_ taking ownership? Maybe
> a reasonable situation for that exists, but I couldn't think of one.
If you are already the author it's not so obvious that you have to reset
authorship in order to reset the date. Also, if you are the author, but
under a different email you may not want to change that.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 16:07 Q about the date format in "git commit --date=..." and such Dirk Süsserott
2011-03-07 16:54 ` Jeff King
2011-03-08 0:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-08 1:16 ` Jeff King
2011-03-08 18:51 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-03-08 19:20 ` Dirk Süsserott
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