Re: bk commits and dates

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:47 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:41:59 +1100
>>Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it
>>>would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk tree, to have the
>>>commit messages for the csets in that tree be dated from the day you
>>>pulled, and not the day when they went in the source tree.
>>
>>When I'm working, I just do "bk csets" after I pull from Linus's
>>tree to review what went in since the last time I pulled.
> 
> 
> Yes, but the commit list archive is handy. I have quite good search
> capabilities in my mailer for example, and sometimes, when doign
> regression, it's quite useful to browse what went in between two
> releases with it (it's just more handy than bk csets).

Speaking strictly in terms of implementation, David Woodhouse's 
bk-commits mailer scripts could probably easily be tweaked to -not- set 
an explicit Date header on the outgoing emails.

It then becomes a matter of deciding whether this is a good idea or not :)

	Jeff