From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:20:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Q about the date format in "git commit --date=..." and such
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In-Reply-To: <20110307165448.GD11934@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> That being said, with --reset-author I have never needed --date, so I
> don't personally care if it gets done or not.

In short, should I take that the resolution of this issue is "I didn't
know about --reset-author and asking for --date=loose was an X-Y problem"?

I agree with you that we would not want to loosen the specification side
(i.e. "commit --date=" as opposed to the selector side "log --since=")
unless we absolutely have to.