Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 5/6] rebase -i: support --ignore-date

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2019, 19:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8srv5ypo.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <c03439bf-54bf-b53d-9400-bdc4dd2a1309@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> That's an important distinction, particularly if GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is
> set in the environment - are we aiming to have the author and
> committer dates match or are we just resetting the author date to now?
> Rohit - do you know which --ignore-date does in the am based rebase?

The purpose "am --ignore-date" was to ignore "Date:" that came from the patch message, overriding it with the current date. It might have become harder to read in the C version, but "git show v2.0.0:git-am.sh" would be an easier way to read how "--ignore-date" wanted to behave.

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