From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757520AbbGGONY (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:13:24 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f48.google.com ([74.125.82.48]:35206 "EHLO mail-wg0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756993AbbGGONO (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:13:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <559BBDD6.7040808@users.sourceforge.net> References: <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> <558EB32E.6090003@users.sourceforge.net> <558EB4DE.3080406@users.sourceforge.net> <20150707023103.GA22043@kroah.com> <559B6FF8.9010704@users.sourceforge.net> <559B85CD.6040200@users.sourceforge.net> <559BBDD6.7040808@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:13:12 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Clarification for the use of additional fields in the message body From: Frans Klaver To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Chris Park , Dean Lee , Johnny Kim , Rachel Kim , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Julia Lawall , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote: >> I think that as far as these kernel mailing lists are concerned, >> the date of the update suggestion is the date on which you submitted the patch, >> rather than the date you originally committed it to your local tree. > > I imagine that there are committers who would like to keep > corresponding software development history a bit more accurate. I guess it depends on what your view on accurate is. >> If you wish to keep track of this evolution for yourself, or >> wish to share it, you're better off stashing it somewhere in a >> (public) git repo that you control. > > Would it be nicer to preserve such data directly also > by the usual mail interface? > > >> If you insist on placing the date somewhere, you can also put the date >> there if you wish. It'll be ignored by git when applied. > > This content management tool provides the capability to store > the discussed information by the parameters "--author=" and "--date=", > doesn't it? > Is the environment variable "GIT_AUTHOR_DATE" also interesting occasionally? > > How often do you take extra care for passing appropriate data there? I can't remember ever changing or explicitly preserving the commit date. I don't think I care enough. I did change the author on botched patches, but that's an exception. Remembering the author separately from the committer is something git does by design anyway. Frans