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

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2009, 08:08 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db660901230008q418f3d3bsc68ca4e9d675cb36@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vljt26fp9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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 ?
>
> "am" being a tool to accept patches written in some past to faithfully
> record both author timestamp and committer timestamp, what you seem to
> want is outside of the current scope of the tool.
>
> A patch to butcher "git-am" to copy GIT_COMMITTER_DATE from
> GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and export it should be trivial to implement, though.
>
> Perhaps something like this totally untested patch.
>

I love this idea. I'll try to test it asap. Thanks!

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