Re: [RFC] Renaming environment variables.

[Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>]

Dear diary, on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:15:20PM CEST, I got a letter
where Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de> told me that...
> > Here is a patch, requesting for comments.
> 
> sounds good. But I would forget about downward compatibility. There is
> no need to maintain it at this early stage.

Sure there is. We are actually far from an early stage now, I'd say.

And what I don't want to see are commits with messed up author
information since people upgraded and did not notice.

> And one thing which bothers me all the time but never spoke up about it:
> There is no way to provide a GIT_COMMIT_DATE. This would be useful for
> vendortracking a CVS repository for example.

You could use GIT_AUTHOR_DATE. :-)

But yes, I actually agree. When you are doing vendortracking of CVS
repository, you have one canonical source of the commit, and when you do
the CVS import twice independently, I think you _want_ the same commit,
since it _is_ the same commit after all (if the history is same too,
obviously).

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