Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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It would make a wonderfully helpful tool less helpful.

I don't agree. Tool is tool. Every tool can be used in a wrong way. A 
notice to documentation that some of functionality should be used very 
carefully should be enough.

In that case, could you please test this patch?

Could you please test to open emergency door in airplane (at best when 
the airplain is in air) without any good reason? The emergency door is 
also a tool, but it should be used in really specific situation.

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[PATCH] git wrapper: --try-this

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If I changed portion of unpublished tree, as maintainer I can combine 
any patches and it might make sense to keep at least my commit dates for 
my reference.

The problem is _NOT_ the unpublished tree, but that you, as a maintainer, 
committed something, but said that somebody else did.  Possibly avoiding 
blame, shifting it to others.

I meant I'm commiter for last patches. So I don't shift my blame to 
others. Also even if I'm not the commiter of patches and removing or 
touching totaly different area (like just README or some or other little 
changes) in repository, I don't see a reason to not to do so. Of course in 
99.9% cases it's better to do it with new commit, because with 
git-reset you split trees and users will have to force pull and 
will probably cry. But in some cases might be worth just to remove / 
modify a patch hardly.

						Jaroslav

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