Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > No, I mean that people may _want_ the timestamp in day to day use. Using > "-n" all the time suppresses it. And there is no reason to suppress it, > except that our test does not account for it properly. So your patch is > hurting people who don't want "-n" (i.e., want the timestamp) just to > make our test happy. It's useful to omit the timestamp outside of git too. Source-based package management systems generally store a URL from which to fetch a source tarball, and a hash of that source tarball to ensure it hasn't been tampered with. It's nice to be able to use a gitweb URL like http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=snapshot;h=e5af0de202e885b793482d416b8ce9d50dd2b8bc;sf=tgz as the tarball source, and still be able to verify its integrity against a prestored hash. Cheers, Chris. -- 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