From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:52:25 GMT
Subject: Re: how to force a commit date matching info from a mbox ?
Message-ID: <20090124005225.GA9864@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901240133510.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:34:41AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > So good to know, and I will start generating my patches differently.
> 
> Note that your patches will not be found using Pasky's "mail" link in 
> gitweb, if you do not put the commit subject into the _real_ mail subject.
> 
> Dunno if I like that.

I think that is not a new problem. Quite a few patches are "how about
this" patches in the middle of a thread, and leave the old subject.
IMHO, that is a failing of the tool in not tracking common practice, not
the other way around.

-Peff