Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates

From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Date: Jun 4, 2008, 09:16 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0806041113520.1798@tm8103-a.perex-int.cz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806032115340.13507@racer.site.net>

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> 
> >  'git-am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
> > -         [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary]
> > +         [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary] [--committer]
> >
> > [...]
> >  
> > +--committer
> > +	Use committer and committer date extracted from
> > +	`X-Git-Committer` and `X-Git-CommitterDate` header
> > +	lines.
> > +
> 
> That feels really funny, given that the guy running git-am _is_ the 
> committer, not whoever provided some extra headers to the mailbox.

Yes, the implementatation does not make sense for public patch handling, but if you do various things locally with git-rebase or git-am (pack picking from another repo), you may consider it useful.

					Jaroslav

----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.