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Re: Invalid dates in git log

From
Eirik Bjørsnøs <eirbjo@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 12, 2007, 14:19 UTC
Message-ID
<34660cca0712120619r708ee7a8ta20a5458ca11a5ac@mail.gmail.com>
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<20071212092304.GA20799@coredump.intra.peff.net>
> Your best guess is probably the committer information. Try this:
Thanks Jeff, Junio,
I'll just use the committer date instead.

Being a Git newbie (only started looking at it yesterday) I'm not sure my understanding of "author" and "committer" and how they releate to dates is correct:

* author: Original source of the change. This person may typically
have sent a committer an email with a patch. It's the commiter's
responsibility to supply this information.
* author date: The commiter is free to specify a date for the contribution.
* committer: First committer to actually add this change to a repository
* committer date: Date of the actual commit, added by the git client
during the commit. Typically the system clock at the time of the
commit.
* A transfer of a commit across repositories (pull, push) will not
change the author, commit or date information
If I got some of this wrong, I'd be happy if someone would correct me.
Thanks,
Eirik.
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Message 6 of 7 in “Invalid dates in git log”
  1. Eirik BjørsnøsDec 12, 2007
  2. Jeff KingDec 12, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2007
  6. Eirik BjørsnøsDec 12, 2007
  7. Andreas EricssonDec 12, 2007

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