Re: how to force a commit date matching info from a mbox ?

From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2009, 00:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20090123094529.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vljt26fp9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

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> Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'd like to force the commit date to match the info/date from the time
>> I received the email (and therefore always get back the right
>> sha1sums).
>>
>> is this possible ?
>
> "am" being a tool to accept patches written in some past to faithfully
> record both author timestamp and committer timestamp, what you seem to
> want is outside of the current scope of the tool.
>
> A patch to butcher "git-am" to copy GIT_COMMITTER_DATE from
> GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and export it should be trivial to implement, though.
>
> Perhaps something like this totally untested patch.

You have test scripts already, but you say it is untested?

I often wanted to have an opposite of what Christian wants. I always have some changes I am holding off, and when I decide to trickle them out to the main repository, I do not want the resulting commit to carry old dates that are recorded in the format-patch output. Instead I want to pretend that I worked on them today. Is this something you can teach git-am and git-rebase to do easily?

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