On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 03:36:07PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > Dear Greg, > > > On 2020-01-02 15:22, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 03:15:04PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > > >> Looking at [1] and [2], the commit author timestamps differ. Mika’s commit > >> in Patchwork is from Nov. 13, 2019, 5:32 p.m. UTC, and you committed it the > >> day after. > >> > >> But, the date of the commit you sent is Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:20:02 +0200 [2]. > >> > >> Is that expected? Should the tag(?) be added in all “forwarded” commits > >> to the list? > > > > What "tag" would that be? > > > > Mathias sent the patches to me through email, and then I applied them to > > my tree. The authorship timestamp ends up being that final email. > > > > Nothing new here, this is how things have always worked :) > > If you add > > Date: Thu Jan 2 13:16:21 2020 +0100 > > in the beginning of the message body, `git am` will take that as author date > instead of the date in the email header. > > `git help am` does not state that, but `git help format-patch` and the > format it creates shows that this is how it works, and I just tested this, > and it works this way. So how would one export the patches from git, and pass them to 'git send-email' in a way that would preserve this tag? But step back here, why is this an issue at all? thanks, greg k-h
