From: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:13:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] push: fix --force-if-includes when remote-tracking ref has no reflog
Message-ID: <20260905171343.34722-1-f@lex.la>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpkyt3qul.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> I prefer patches with human-readable explanations and known origin.

Dropped the trailer. You will not see it again.

On origin: this comes out of git's own tree, not an outside corpus, and
that is why every claim in the message names a file or a commit you can
check. The change here is one line, timestamp_t date; becoming
timestamp_t date = 0;. I read the whole thing and can explain any line
of it, and the sign-off is what carries that.

v3 uses your wording for the first paragraph and explains why zero is
the right fallback rather than "now" or a fixed age.