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From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD] use approxidate for "git commit --date=xyz"?
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 08:22:15 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1405070817580.15517@ds9.cixit.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1tweec1o.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano:

> But why does the workflow need --date=now in the first place?

I tend to do this quite a lot, after fixing up a commit using rebase, 
I notice that the commit date is when I first started fixing the 
issue, even if that was a week or so ago. I then like to reset the 
commit date to reflect when I actually was done with it, and try 
"commit --amend --date=now".

I just haven't been annoyed enough to patch the code to fix it (so the 
git repository at my $dayjob does have a number of commits with the "wrong" 
commit time in it [1]), but I would welcome such an addition.

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

  [1] The last such is one that took me about a week to implement:
       AuthorDate: 2014-04-15 15:48:38 +0200
       CommitDate: 2014-04-22 09:23:25 +0100
      it'd look better to have the AuthorDate at the 22nd as well, imho.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-07  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-30 21:09 [RFD] use approxidate for "git commit --date=xyz"? Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 21:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-01 22:06   ` Jeff King
2014-05-02  1:03     ` [PATCH 0/4] approxidate for "git commit --date=foo" Jeff King
2014-05-02  1:06       ` [PATCH 1/4] commit: use split_ident_line to compare author/committer Jeff King
2014-05-02  1:07       ` [PATCH 2/4] pretty: make show_ident_date public Jeff King
2014-05-02  1:10       ` [PATCH 3/4] commit: print "Date" line when the user has set date Jeff King
2014-05-02  1:12       ` [PATCH 4/4] commit: accept more date formats for "--date" Jeff King
2014-05-07  7:22   ` Peter Krefting [this message]

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