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Re: how to force a commit date matching info from a mbox ?

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 23, 2009, 00:21 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0901230119490.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:
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> I've a big set of patches in a mbox file: there's sufficient info inside 
> for git-am to work.
> 
> Yet, each time I do import these, my sha1sums are changing because of 
> different commit dates.
> 
> I'd like to force the commit date to match the info/date from the time I 
> received the email (and therefore always get back the right sha1sums).
> 
> is this possible ?
Have you tried setting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE to the given date?

Alternatively, you can always use a commit-message filter with filter-branch to fix it up.

Ciao, Dscho

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