Re: how to force a commit date matching info from a mbox ?

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2009, 08:07 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db660901230007x36368c79s724d1adb51d0818d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901230119490.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:
>
>> I've a big set of patches in a mbox file: there's sufficient info inside
>> for git-am to work.
>>
>> Yet, each time I do import these, my sha1sums are changing because of
>> different commit dates.
>>
>> I'd like to force the commit date to match the info/date from the time I
>> received the email (and therefore always get back the right sha1sums).
>>
>> is this possible ?
>
> Have you tried setting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE to the given date?

yes, I did. This is what I want to change: I can fix the same
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE for all patches in the mbox, but I really want +
                   GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=GIT_AUTHOR_DATE

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>
> Alternatively, you can always use a commit-message filter with
> filter-branch to fix it up.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>

I'm curious if this could be done: the problem I quickly faced was that this approach would double the amount of commits.

So I'm eager to test Junio's patch :)

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