From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: git-send-email is omitting author and date lines Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:10:20 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <1190585633.29937.44.camel@localhost> <7v4phlc668.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20070924110817.GA15797@lapse.madduck.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Hanspeter Kunz , git@vger.kernel.org To: martin f krafft X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 24 13:11:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZlqc-0004xC-S4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:11:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755843AbXIXLLZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:11:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755703AbXIXLLZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:11:25 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:41198 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755193AbXIXLLY (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:11:24 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2007 11:11:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp055) with SMTP; 24 Sep 2007 13:11:22 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18dSeclgRYdhShRN3cQJZhiWUDBpX/N3+CO2hEO6A L09/UAb/RVdvPu X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20070924110817.GA15797@lapse.madduck.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, martin f krafft wrote: > But information *does* get lost, namely the date. If I send a patch > by email and it gets merged by the recipient, the date of the commit > will be the date of the email, not the date of original commit, or > when it was merged. And that is perfectly okay, since as far as the public is concerned, this is the date of the patch. Ciao, Dscho