Christian MICHON <christian.michon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'd like to force the commit date to match the info/date from the time > I received the email (and therefore always get back the right > sha1sums). > > is this possible ? "am" being a tool to accept patches written in some past to faithfully record both author timestamp and committer timestamp, what you seem to want is outside of the current scope of the tool. A patch to butcher "git-am" to copy GIT_COMMITTER_DATE from GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and export it should be trivial to implement, though. Perhaps something like this totally untested patch. git-am.sh | 13 ++++++++++++- t/t4150-am.sh | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git c/git-am.sh w/git-am.sh index e20dd88..e96071d 100755 --- c/git-am.sh +++ w/git-am.sh @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ resolvemsg= override error message when patch failure occurs r,resolved to be used after a patch failure skip skip the current patch abort restore the original branch and abort the patching operation. +committer-date-is-author-date lie about committer date rebasing (internal use for git-rebase)" . git-sh-setup @@ -133,6 +134,7 @@ dotest="$GIT_DIR/rebase-apply" sign= utf8=t keep= skip= interactive= resolved= rebasing= abort= resolvemsg= resume= git_apply_opt= +committer_date_is_author_date= while test $# != 0 do @@ -168,6 +170,8 @@ do git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $(sq "$1=$2")"; shift ;; -C|-p) git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $(sq "$1$2")"; shift ;; + --committer-date-is-author-date) + committer_date_is_author_date=t ;; --) shift; break ;; *) @@ -521,7 +525,14 @@ do tree=$(git write-tree) && parent=$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD) && - commit=$(git commit-tree $tree -p $parent <"$dotest/final-commit") && + commit=$( + if test -n "$committer_date_is_author_date" + then + GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE" + export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE + fi && + git commit-tree $tree -p $parent <"$dotest/final-commit" + ) && git update-ref -m "$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: $FIRSTLINE" HEAD $commit $parent || stop_here $this diff --git c/t/t4150-am.sh w/t/t4150-am.sh index 796f795..8d3fb00 100755 --- c/t/t4150-am.sh +++ w/t/t4150-am.sh @@ -257,4 +257,24 @@ test_expect_success 'am works from file (absolute path given) in subdirectory' ' test -z "$(git diff second)" ' +test_expect_success 'am --committer-date-is-author-date' ' + git checkout first && + test_tick && + git am --committer-date-is-author-date patch1 && + git cat-file commit HEAD | sed -e "/^$/q" >head1 && + at=$(sed -ne "/^author /s/.*> //p" head1) && + ct=$(sed -ne "/^committer /s/.*> //p" head1) && + test "$at" = "$ct" +' + +test_expect_success 'am without --committer-date-is-author-date' ' + git checkout first && + test_tick && + git am patch1 && + git cat-file commit HEAD | sed -e "/^$/q" >head1 && + at=$(sed -ne "/^author /s/.*> //p" head1) && + ct=$(sed -ne "/^committer /s/.*> //p" head1) && + test "$at" != "$ct" +' + test_done -- 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