From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:12:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates
Message-ID: <m3ej7dzc7y.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20080604102906.GA2126@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:

> On 2008-06-04 11:16:46 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > > That feels really funny, given that the guy running git-am _is_
> > > the committer, not whoever provided some extra headers to the
> > > mailbox.
> >
> > Yes, the implementatation does not make sense for public patch
> > handling, but if you do various things locally with git-rebase or
> > git-am (pack picking from another repo), you may consider it useful.
> 
> But still, you're creating new commits, so they should have your name
> on them.

Yes, if you are _creating_ *commits*, then you are *committer*, isn't it?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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