Re: Small trivial annoyance with the nice new builtin "git am"

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 04:47:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Also makes me wonder if "git cherry-pick A..B" shares the same
> breakage.

Probably.

I guess we want something like:

diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index 139c528..e20a772 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -184,6 +184,11 @@ static const char *ident_default_date(void)
 	return git_default_date.buf;
 }
 
+void reset_ident_date(void)
+{
+	strbuf_reset(&git_default_date);
+}
+
 static int crud(unsigned char c)
 {
 	return  c <= 32  ||

and then to sprinkle calls liberally through builtin-ified programs when
they move from one unit of work to the next.

We could also support resetting the whole ident string, but I don't
think there's any reason to (and unlike the datestamp, it has to do a
bit more looking around to come up with its values).

-Peff