From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:16:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Q about the date format in "git commit --date=..." and such
Message-ID: <20110308011646.GA21278@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vzkp6zclw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:20:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > That being said, with --reset-author I have never needed --date, so I
> > don't personally care if it gets done or not.
> 
> In short, should I take that the resolution of this issue is "I didn't
> know about --reset-author and asking for --date=loose was an X-Y problem"?
> 
> I agree with you that we would not want to loosen the specification side
> (i.e. "commit --date=" as opposed to the selector side "log --since=")
> unless we absolutely have to.

It is up to Dirk to say whether it solves his particular problem or not.
But thinking on it more, --date=now does encourage a bit of a wrong
workflow. Why would you be resetting the date but _not_ taking
ownership? Maybe a reasonable situation for that exists, but I couldn't
think of one.

-Peff