Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
There is a third category, and this one *does* come as a surprise to me.
It appears that at least *some* patches' Date: lines are either ignored or
overridden or changed on their way from the mailing list into Git's commit
history. There was only one commit in that commit range:
3c0cb0c (read_loose_refs(): read refs using resolve_ref_recursively(),
Michael Haggerty 2017-02-09)
This one was committed with an author date "Thu, 09 Feb 2017 21:53:52
+0100" but it appears that there was no mail sent to the Git mailing list
I think this is this one:
[ref]
Recent "What's cooking" lists the topic this one is part with this
comment:
The tip one is newer than the one posted to the list but was sent
privately by the author via his GitHub repository.