On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:20:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > That being said, with --reset-author I have never needed --date, so I > > don't personally care if it gets done or not. > > In short, should I take that the resolution of this issue is "I didn't > know about --reset-author and asking for --date=loose was an X-Y problem"? > > I agree with you that we would not want to loosen the specification side > (i.e. "commit --date=" as opposed to the selector side "log --since=") > unless we absolutely have to. It is up to Dirk to say whether it solves his particular problem or not. But thinking on it more, --date=now does encourage a bit of a wrong workflow. Why would you be resetting the date but _not_ taking ownership? Maybe a reasonable situation for that exists, but I couldn't think of one. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html