Re: [StGit] import --mail/--mbox question

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2009, 09:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20090115094912.GC24890@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <496E0656.2090705@ruby.dti.ne.jp>

On 2009-01-15 00:35:50 +0900, Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:

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> Question: when importing Mozilla Thunderbird mails (eml or mbox),
> the imported patch always have committer's date in git log, not
> submitter's date. However, if importing the same mails with git am,
> we could see submitter's date in git log.
>
> Is this intentionally-designed log management of StGit? I would
> expect the submitter's date & locale is kept when importing patches
> from e-mails.

Hmm. I agree with you that the expected behavior when importing patches from e-mails is that the author date is set to the date in the e-mail, the way git-am does it.

Looking at the code, it looks like the intention is that it should work that way, too. So I guess it's simply a bug. Catalin, do you have a clue?

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