From: Santiago Torres Arias <santiago@nyu.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>,
'Nathaniel Manista' <nathaniel@google.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ISSUE] Stop accessing, storing, and sharing the user's time zone
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:53:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191205175326.fxgfofr4xvh7kaxb@LykOS.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwobazmzp.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 09:43:54AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
>
> > .... I currently am
> > running a repository located at UTC+2, with developers at
> > UTC-5. It is driving us a bit wonky. I would rather see only UTC.
>
> I also feel that TZ being PII is not particularly a brilliant
> argument against recording TZ---of course it is PII, so are the
> committer e-mail address and the committer name. Those who want to
> hide can hide but in order to keep track of provenance who did what
> when, we do record them.
This is exactly what I had found confusing from the original post.
>
> As you can guess from the above reasoning, I am not fundamentally
> opposed to introducing user.tz to complement existing user.name and
> user.email configuration variables.
This sounds like a small delta that would probably please everyone. For
now, using the --date argument on git commit allows you to also pass a
timezone:
git commit --date="$(TZ=PST date)"
Which you could easily alias...
Thanks,
-Santiago
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-05 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-05 17:14 Nathaniel Manista
2019-12-05 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-05 17:33 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-12-05 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-05 17:53 ` Santiago Torres Arias [this message]
2019-12-05 18:00 ` Randall S. Becker
2020-09-30 23:21 ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] adding user.hideTimezone for setting UTC timezone Shengfa Lin
2020-09-30 23:21 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] hideTimezone: add a user.hideTimezone config Shengfa Lin
2020-09-30 23:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-01 0:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-02 6:07 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-01 0:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-01 0:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-02 6:41 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-02 6:46 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-02 6:37 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-02 6:02 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-02 6:15 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-02 22:32 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-03 4:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-30 23:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-02 6:51 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-01 0:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-01 2:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-02 21:17 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-09-30 23:53 ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] adding user.hideTimezone for setting UTC timezone Junio C Hamano
2020-10-01 2:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-01 3:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-01 15:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-08 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <CAEOYnASgxCE5NjhoSgDwyQyAmdLhw5UyFq_Fu==8q7y6uXGz6w@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-09 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-02 21:56 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-02 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-03 3:50 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-03 4:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-03 19:53 ` brian m. carlson
2020-10-03 22:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-02 21:42 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-02 21:23 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-13 5:28 ` [WIP v2 0/2] experiment with commit option record-time-zone Shengfa Lin
2020-10-13 5:28 ` [WIP v2 1/2] Adding a record-time-zone command option for commit Shengfa Lin
2020-10-13 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-21 5:01 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-21 18:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-22 16:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-26 4:14 ` Shengfa Lin
2020-10-13 5:28 ` [WIP v2 2/2] Demonstrate failing and passing tests Shengfa Lin
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