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Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates

From
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Date
Jun 5, 2008, 13:38 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.61.0806051528220.1798@tm8103-a.perex-int.cz>
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> It would make a wonderfully helpful tool less helpful.

I don't agree. Tool is tool. Every tool can be used in a wrong way. A notice to documentation that some of functionality should be used very carefully should be enough.

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> > Also, having a possibility to easy remove a changeset (hardly - not 
> > revert) without touching all other changesets on top is a function worth 
> > to include.
> 
> The problem there is that you -- again -- lie about the committers.  They 
> _never_ saw, approved, or tested those commits.

If I changed portion of unpublished tree, as maintainer I can combine any patches and it might make sense to keep at least my commit dates for my reference.

					Thanks,
						Jaroslav

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

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  1. Keep committer and committer datesJaroslav Kysela, Jun 3, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinJun 3, 2008
  3. Jaroslav KyselaJun 4, 2008
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  5. Jakub NarebskiJun 4, 2008
  6. Jaroslav KyselaJun 4, 2008
  7. Nicolas PitreJun 4, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinJun 4, 2008
  9. Stephan BeyerJun 5, 2008
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  11. Junio C HamanoJun 5, 2008
  12. Johannes SixtJun 5, 2008
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