> 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. > 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? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
