Hi Phillip, On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Phillip Wood wrote: > On 18/04/18 19:15, Johannes Sixt wrote: > > Am 18.04.2018 um 19:47 schrieb Phillip Wood: > >> On 18/04/18 12:27, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >>> On Wed, Apr 18 2018, Phillip Wood wrote: > >>>> From: Phillip Wood > >>>> as it is created by running an separate instance of 'git commit'. If > >>>> the reworded commit is follow by further picks, those later commits > >>>> will have an earlier committer date than the reworded one. This is > >>>> caused by git caching the default date used when GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is > >>>> not set. Fix this by not caching the date. > >>>> > >>>> Users expect commits to have the same author and committer dates when > >>>> the don't explicitly set them. As the date is now updated each time > >>>> git_author_info() or git_committer_info() is run it is possible to end > >>>> up with different author and committer dates. Fix this for > >>>> 'commit-tree', 'notes' and 'merge' by using a single date in > >>>> commit_tree_extended() and passing it explicitly to the new functions > >>>> git_author_info_with_date() and git_committer_info_with_date() when > >>>> neither the author date nor the committer date are explicitly > >>>> set. 'commit' always passes the author date to commit_tree_extended() > >>>> and relied on the date caching to have the same committer and author > >>>> dates when neither was specified. Fix this by setting > >>>> GIT_COMMITTER_DATE to be the same as the author date passed to > >>>> commit_tree_extended(). > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood > >>>> Reported-by: Johannes Sixt > >>>> --- > >>>> > >>>> I'm slightly nervous that setting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE in > >>>> builtin/commit.c will break someone's hook script. Maybe it would be > >>>> better to add a committer parameter to commit_tree() and > >>>> commit_tree_extended(). > > > > While I like the basic theme of your patch, I think we should fix this > > case in a much simpler way, namely, use the infrastructure that was > > introduced for git-am. > > > > I've shamelessly lifted the commit message from your patch. > > Thanks, that is a better way (I'm annoyed with myself for not having > noticed reset_ident_date() when I edited the function above it) Don't be too annoyed. I did remember that The Linus had complained about something similar and assumed that it had been fixed in the meantime, but I failed to find it within 30 minutes where I tried to dig through public-inbox and pu. Thanks Hannes for remembering, and for coming up with the final form of the patch! Ciao, Dscho