On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 16:44 -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:

On 6/7/2012 4:39 PM, David Miller wrote:

quoted

From: Chris Metcalf <redacted>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:42:03 -0400

quoted

Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:42:03 -0400

You did not commit this file on April 6th.

Please don't use the date emitted by the GIT tools, just
let the email use the natural correct date which is the
one at the time you send the email out.

Otherwise your patch gets misordered as automated tools like
patchwork think this file should go all the way at the back
of the patch queue because of it's old date relative to
other pending patches.

Yes, when I use "git rebase" to merge changes into the earlier patch, this
is the behavior I see.  I don't know if there's some way to tell git to
take the date on the later change instead when I "squash" them.

[...]

git commit --amend --date="$(date)"

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.