Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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Karl Hasselstr?m [off-list ref] writes:

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On 2008-06-04 11:16:46 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

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On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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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.

But still, you're creating new commits, so they should have your name
on them.

Yes, if you are _creating_ *commits*, then you are *committer*, isn't it?

I agree with that, but if you just manage patches and you want to keep 
commit history and change only hash numbers, it's an option. Nothing else. 
It's just tool extension and users have to cleverly decide if it's worth 
to use it or not.

I think that

- what you want to do is better done with git fast-export; <edit>; git 
  fast-import, than with git porcelain, and

- you hopefully do _not_ want to recommend your workflow (and bless it 
  with porcelain support), because

- as has been pointed out several times now, you _are_ the committer, and 
  you seem to want to lie there.

Ciao,
Dscho