Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:

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

Lying is already possible with GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME,EMAIL,NAME} 
environment variables.

Of course it is possible!  I even pointed to a method!

The _point_ was that we do not want to recommend it.  And giving prominent 
support for it, such as introducing a command line parameter, _would_ 
have the effect of recommending it.

Furthermore, if you mess with committer dates, you can screw up revision
walking to some degree. committer dates aren't merely informational.

-- Hannes