From: Josef Sipek Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:57:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use patch file's modtime as the git author and commiter date Message-ID: <20070212065720.GB31806@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: <11712362751442-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:24:35PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > 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. -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.