Re: git non-time-sequential logs

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:00 AM Franco Fichtner <franco_at_lastsummer.de> wrote:
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> > On 4. Jan 2021, at 7:52 PM, Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Er, uh, no.  ;)
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> 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:
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> # git log --format=fuller
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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