From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:34:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Changed timestamp behavior of options -c/-C/--amend
Message-ID: <hcihi9$jkq$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091030202628.GA26513@coredump.intra.peff.net>


> So my suspicion is that there are some people who almost always want
> --new-timestamp, and some people who almost always want --old-timestamp,
> depending on their usual workflow. In which case a config option
> probably makes the most sense (but keeping the command-line to override
> the config, of course).

I'd say the config option should be per-branch (so that you can set the 
old-timestamp option only in integration branches, and not in topic 
branches), and that with such an option you could make the default be 
--new-timestamp in all three cases.

Paolo