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Re: [PATCH] Use patch file's modtime as the git author and commiter date

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JSJosef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date
Feb 12, 2007, 06:57 UTC
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:24:35PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
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> By using the same author and committer date, it keeps the git commit
> id's stable if the patches haven't changed.  Otherwise, repeated
> invocations of "guilt pop -a; guilt push -a" will create new commit's
> with different commit dates, creating a lot of garbage commits that
> won't disappear for a LONG time, even after running "git-gc --prune",
> thanks to the reflog in git 1.5.
Applied. Thanks.
Josef "Jeff" Sipek.
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  1. Use patch file's modtime as the git author and commiter dateTheodore Ts'o, Feb 11, 2007
  2. Josef SipekFeb 12, 2007

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