Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

quoted

 'git-am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8]
-         [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary]
+         [--3way] [--interactive] [--binary] [--committer]

[...]
 
+--committer
+	Use committer and committer date extracted from
+	`X-Git-Committer` and `X-Git-CommitterDate` header
+	lines.
+

That feels really funny, given that the guy running git-am _is_ the 
committer, not whoever provided some extra headers to the mailbox.

Yes, the implementatation does not make sense for public patch 
handling, but if you do various things locally with git-rebase or git-am 
(pack picking from another repo), you may consider it useful.

					Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela [off-list ref]
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.