Re: gitweb wishlist

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: May 20, 2005, 22:13 UTC
Message-ID: <428E6123.8050907@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <1116626652.12975.118.camel@dhcp-188>

Kay Sievers wrote:

> 
> And the klibc-repo was created with a patched git-commit to fake the
> commit date with the author date. :)
>

In fact, I kind of wish we'd also made committer == author.

Since this whole thing is an import from another revision control system, one really wants that. It's one of those very rare situations in which fudging the commit date is not only fully legitimate, but darn near required.

	-hpa

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