Re: Make author and committer available to pre-commit hook

Gisle Aas [off-list ref] writes:

One question that arise is what format the date variables should have.
Is the raw format (that is "1278400946 +0200") sensible?

I'd say so.  We are doing this for scripts (hooks) and there is not much
point doing machine-readable-to-human conversion they could do if they so
choose.

I've created a patch for this locally, but it has some side effects in
messing up the dates stored by 'git commit -C...' which I have not
figured out yet; and now I need to get some other stuff done.

I imagine that you would be sending the date information just the same way
you send the author information, so if your addition messes up the dates
for "commit -C", wouldn't your original patch mess up the authorship
information the same way?

In any case, this new feature won't be in 'master' nor 'next' while we are
in pre-release freeze, so no need to rush.

Thanks.