> I can't remember ever changing or explicitly preserving the commit date. > I don't think I care enough. Would any more software developers and maintainers like to share their experiences around such details? When do commit timestamps become relevant as a documentation item for contribution authorship? > Remembering the author separately from the committer is something > git does by design anyway. Do you usually just reuse a procedure from a well-known command for which a description is provided like the following? http://git-scm.com/docs/git-am '… "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers. …' Will further fields be eventually mentioned 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
