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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:15:21 +0000
Subject: Re: Clarification for the use of additional fields in the message body
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To: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Chris Park <chris.park@atmel.com>, Dean Lee <dean.lee@atmel.com>, Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@atmel.com>, Rachel Kim <rachel.kim@atmel.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

> I can't remember ever changing or explicitly preserving the commit date.
> I don't think I care enough.

Would any more software developers and maintainers like to share
their experiences around such details?

When do commit timestamps become relevant as a documentation item
for contribution authorship?


> Remembering the author separately from the committer is something
> git does by design anyway.

Do you usually just reuse a procedure from a well-known command
for which a description is provided like the following?
http://git-scm.com/docs/git-am
'…
"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override
the respective commit author name and title values
taken from the headers.
…'

Will further fields be eventually mentioned there?

Regards,
Markus