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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 2021 11:16:25 -0800
From:      Ryan Libby <rlibby@freebsd.org>
To:        Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
Cc:        Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>,  Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>,  Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: git non-time-sequential logs
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On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:00 AM Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de> wrote:
>
>
> > On 4. Jan 2021, at 7:52 PM, Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The point is to stop looking at git like svn: commits should be done as larger bodies of work (merge commits), as opposed to single atomic commits.
>
> Er, uh, no.  ;)
>
> The author date stays the same, the committer date is sequential except
> that it indicates the local time of the committer doing the cherry-pick
> instead of the central server as opposed to svn:
>
> # git log --format=fuller
>

It's normally sequential, but with the caveat that it's ultimately
arbitrary and can't be relied on unless we enforce that.

GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="1970-01-01T00:00:00Z" git commit



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