Re: [PATCH] git-am: Add --ignore-date option

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 23, 2009, 12:38 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901231336080.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090123172646.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

Hi,

[if you would have given a new mail subject to your mail, gitweb would 
 stand a chance to find it]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:

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> Subject: [PATCH] git-am: Add --ignore-date option
> 
> This new option makes the command ignore the date header field recorded in
> the format-patch output.  The commits will have the timestamp when they
> are created instead.
> 
> You can work a lot in one day to accumulate many changes, but apply and
> push to the public repository only some of them at the end of the first
> day.  Then next day you can spend all your working hours reading comics or
> chatting with your coworkers, and apply your remaining patches from the
> previous day using this option to pretend that you have been working at
> the end of the day.

FWIW I have that problem in one of my workflows, and I do this:

	grep -v "^Date:" < $MBOX | git am

Of course, this assumes that none of my commit messages has the string "Date:" at the beginning of the line...

Ciao, Dscho