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Re: git gui produces series of commits with exactly the same time

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AFAndrei Faber <andrei.faber@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 30, 2016, 05:59 UTC
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<7ee92d87-810a-5f30-9e16-dc2d1a3e6887@gmail.com>
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<alpine.DEB.2.20.1606291344400.12947@virtualbox>
Hi everyone,
I've found one case when this bug happens.
1. Create a commit
2. Amend it
3. Create several new commits

All the new commits have the same "Author" timestamp until the git gui is restarted.

Can anyone reproduce this?

Best wishes, Andrei Faber

On 29/06/2016 18:45, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi Andrei,
>
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Andrei Faber wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that git history contains series of commits with exactly
>> the same time, despite the real commit time of these commits was
>> different. All these commit were made using the git gui tool. I'm the
>> only developer in this project.
> Is it possible that you played games with your GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment
> variable?
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes
>
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  1. Andrei FaberJun 29, 2016
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  3. Andrei FaberJun 29, 2016
  4. Andrei FaberJun 30, 2016

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