On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. I guess it depends on what your view on accurate is. >> 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? I can't remember ever changing or explicitly preserving the commit date. I don't think I care enough. I did change the author on botched patches, but that's an exception. Remembering the author separately from the committer is something git does by design anyway. Frans -- 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
