Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.