From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: Q about the date format in "git commit --date=..." and such Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:51:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4D73B158.5040409@dirk.my1.cc> <20110307165448.GD11934@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vzkp6zclw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110308011646.GA21278@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Dirk =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=BCsserott?= , Git Mailing List To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 08 19:51:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px20W-0004Qh-75 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:51:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754940Ab1CHSvi (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:51:38 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:48529 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753405Ab1CHSvh (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:51:37 -0500 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8721186DEEA; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:51:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 255AC1C0008E; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:51:35 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5bw9Fv-ExgbY; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:51:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-123-39.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.123.39]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:51:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 350E1CA2A0; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:51:34 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Uh-oh!! I forgot to submit to COMPULSORY URINALYSIS! In-Reply-To: <20110308011646.GA21278@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:16:46 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.94 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."