Johannes Sixt <[email protected]> writes:
> 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.
Yup. reset_ident_date() was introduced by 4d9c7e6f ("am: reset
cached ident date for each patch", 2016-08-01) and the commit
explains very well why it is a good idea to have both the caching
and also the strategic resetting it introduces.
Thanks, all.
> I've shamelessly lifted the commit message from your patch.
>
> ---- 8< ----
> Subject: [PATCH] sequencer: reset the committer date before commits
>
> Now that the sequencer commits without forking when the commit message
> isn't edited all the commits that are picked have the same committer
> date. If a commit is reworded it's committer date will be a later time
> 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. Reset the cached date before a commit is generated
> in-process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <[email protected]>
> ---
> sequencer.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
> index f9d1001dee..f0bac903a0 100644
> --- a/sequencer.c
> +++ b/sequencer.c
> @@ -1148,6 +1148,8 @@ static int try_to_commit(struct strbuf *msg, const char
> *author,
> goto out;
> }
>
> + reset_ident_date();
> +
> if (commit_tree_extended(msg->buf, msg->len, &tree, parents,
> oid, author, opts->gpg_sign, extra)) {
> res = error(_("failed to write commit object"));
