Re: Cross-referencing the Git mailing list archive with their corresponding commits in `pu`

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 20, 2017, 19:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqefysk67v.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702171841450.3496@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> There is a third category, and this one *does* come as a surprise to me.
> It appears that at least *some* patches' Date: lines are either ignored or
> overridden or changed on their way from the mailing list into Git's commit
> history. There was only one commit in that commit range:
>
> 3c0cb0c (read_loose_refs(): read refs using resolve_ref_recursively(),
> 	Michael Haggerty 2017-02-09)
>
> This one was committed with an author date "Thu, 09 Feb 2017 21:53:52
> +0100" but it appears that there was no mail sent to the Git mailing list

I think this is this one:

    <ff0b0df6-9aed-9417-d9d4-1234d53f05c3@alum.mit.edu>

Recent "What's cooking" lists the topic this one is part with this comment:

 The tip one is newer than the one posted to the list but was sent
 privately by the author via his GitHub repository.