Re: Clarification for the use of additional fields in the message body

SF Markus Elfring
2015-07-07T11:53:58Z

> I think that as far as these kernel mailing lists are concerned,
> the date of the update suggestion is the date on which you submitted the patch,
> rather than the date you originally committed it to your local tree.

I imagine that there are committers who would like to keep
corresponding software development history a bit more accurate.

> If you wish to keep track of this evolution for yourself, or
> wish to share it, you're better off stashing it somewhere in a
> (public) git repo that you control.

Would it be nicer to preserve such data directly also
by the usual mail interface?

> If you insist on placing the date somewhere, you can also put the date
> there if you wish. It'll be ignored by git when applied.

This content management tool provides the capability to store
the discussed information by the parameters "--author=" and "--date=",
doesn't it?
Is the environment variable "GIT_AUTHOR_DATE" also interesting occasionally?

How often do you take extra care for passing appropriate data there?

Regards,
Markus