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Re: How to set git commit timestamp

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
May 8, 2007, 11:29 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > By the way, is there fast-import version of git-quiltimport?
> 
> No, and I don't think its easy.  Isn't a quilt patchstack stored as a 
> series of patch files?  So "importing" it into Git requires applying the 
> patch to the base tree, then writing that base tree to the ODB.  
> fast-import doesn't know how to run git-apply, though Junio and I did 
> kick it around (generally) a few months ago on #git.

You'd have to pretend that all of these patches are branches. Well, in the end they are...

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Guido OstkampMay 6, 2007
  2. Alex RiesenMay 6, 2007
  3. René ScharfeMay 6, 2007
  4. Robin RosenbergMay 6, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceMay 8, 2007
  6. Jakub NarebskiMay 8, 2007
  7. Shawn O. PearceMay 8, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinMay 8, 2007
  9. Jakub NarebskiMay 11, 2007

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