From: Jaroslav Kysela Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:38:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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. > > 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 If I changed portion of unpublished tree, as maintainer I can combine any patches and it might make sense to keep at least my commit dates for my reference.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 Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.