Re: GIT_COMMITTER_* and reflog

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > If somebody wants to pursue a patch, I suspect the solution is probably
> > something like this (totally untested):
> 
> Looks sensible.  It is very much unsatisfying that datestamp(),
> which is used by fmt_ident() when no date string is given, seems to
> totally bypass date.c::get_time(), which means the framework to give
> fake timestamp via GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW cannot be used to write
> reproducible tests.
> 
> Given that datestamp() is only used by the push certificate and
> fast-import codepaths and nowhere else, I suspect that "fixing" it
> retroactively to honor GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW would not have any negative
> fallout, but that's not something I should be contemplating on
> during the -rc period ;-)