Re: [RFC PATCH] unpack-trees.c: handle empty deleted ita files

2019-08-13 Thread René Scharfe
Am 13.08.19 um 22:32 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > So perhaps > > + !ce_intent_to_add(a) && !ce_intent_to_add(b) && > > i.e. "a cache entry is eligible to be same with something else only > when its I-T-A bit is unset". FWIW, here's another way to express that: diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpac

[PATCH v2] use delete_refs when deleting tags or branches

2019-08-13 Thread Phil Hord
From: Phil Hord 'git tag -d' and 'git branch -d' both accept one or more refs to delete, but each deletion is done by calling `delete_ref` on each argv. This is very slow when removing from packed refs as packed-refs is locked and rewritten each time. Use delete_refs instead so all the removals c

Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] apply: reload .gitattributes after patching it

2019-08-13 Thread brian m. carlson
On 2019-08-13 at 22:37:56, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "brian m. carlson" writes: > > > +test_expect_success 'rebase --am and .gitattributes' ' > > + test_create_repo attributes && > > + ( > > + cd attributes && > > + test_commit init && > > + test_config filter.test

Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] apply: reload .gitattributes after patching it

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
"brian m. carlson" writes: > +test_expect_success 'rebase --am and .gitattributes' ' > + test_create_repo attributes && > + ( > + cd attributes && > + test_commit init && > + test_config filter.test.clean "sed -e > '\''s/smudged/clean/g'\''" && > +

Re: How to reset selected lines?

2019-08-13 Thread Johannes Sixt
Am 13.08.19 um 16:18 schrieb Pratyush Yadav: > Now, I want to add a similar feature, but one that discards/resets the > selected lines. And I'd like to avoid the hack that git-gui's > apply_range_or_line is. So, is there a cleaner way to do this that does > not involve generating a diff and then

Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] fetch: Make --jobs control submodules and remotes

2019-08-13 Thread Palmer Dabbelt
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:16:11 PDT (-0700), johannes.schinde...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: The existing --jobs argument was defined to control the number of jobs used for submodule fetching, but it makes more sense to have this argument control the number of jo

Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] fetch: Make --jobs control submodules and remotes

2019-08-13 Thread Palmer Dabbelt
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:00:13 PDT (-0700), gits...@pobox.com wrote: Palmer Dabbelt writes: The existing --jobs argument was defined to control the number of jobs used for submodule fetching, but it makes more sense to have this argument control the number of jobs to be used when fetching from m

Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] fetch: Make --jobs control submodules and remotes

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Palmer Dabbelt writes: > The existing --jobs argument was defined to control the number of jobs > used for submodule fetching, but it makes more sense to have this > argument control the number of jobs to be used when fetching from > multiple remotes as well. > > This patch simply changes the --j

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 5/6] rebase -i: support --ignore-date

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Rohit Ashiwal writes: > --ignore-date:: > - This flag is passed to 'git am' to change the author date > - of the rebased commits (see linkgit:git-am[1]). > + Instead of using the given author date, re-set it to the value > + same as committer (current) date. This implies --force-

Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] Create 'feature.*' config area and some centralized config parsing

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano writes: > "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" writes: > >> * Update docs and 0 constant in feature.experimental around >>merge.directoryRenames. > > I somehow thought that the concensus was that *.experimental is for > things that should become the future default, and this one

Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] Create 'feature.*' config area and some centralized config parsing

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" writes: > * Update docs and 0 constant in feature.experimental around >merge.directoryRenames. I somehow thought that the concensus was that *.experimental is for things that should become the future default, and this one is not something we would want to m

Re: [RFC PATCH] unpack-trees.c: handle empty deleted ita files

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
René Scharfe writes: > Am 13.08.19 um 18:03 schrieb Varun Naik: >> It is possible to delete a committed file from the index and then add it >> as intent-to-add. Several variations of "reset" and "checkout" should >> resurrect the file in the index from HEAD. "merge", "cherry-pick", and >> "revert

Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] fetch: Make --jobs control submodules and remotes

2019-08-13 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > The existing --jobs argument was defined to control the number of jobs > used for submodule fetching, but it makes more sense to have this > argument control the number of jobs to be used when fetching from > multiple remotes as well. > > This pat

Re: [PATCH] worktree remove: clarify error message on dirty worktree

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Eric Sunshine writes: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:04 PM SZEDER Gábor wrote: >> To avoid data loss, 'git worktree remove' refuses to delete a worktree >> if it's dirty or contains untracked files. However, the error message >> only mentions that the worktree "is dirty", even if the worktree in >

Re: [RFC PATCH] http: use xmalloc with cURL

2019-08-13 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > I think it might be worth just eliminating the whole idea. > > I kinda like the simplification ;-) An even thinner wrapper that > calls malloc() and dies if it gets NULL, without any "try-to-free" > logic. This is one of t

Re: Non-robust lock files in containers can lead to repo corruption

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > I don't think there are. Most of Git's locks are predicated purely on > the existence of the lockfile (with the intent that they'd work over > systems like NFS). The gc lock is a weird one-off. > > And while it's not great for multiple gc's to run at the same time > (because i

Re: [PATCH] worktree remove: clarify error message on dirty worktree

2019-08-13 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:04 PM SZEDER Gábor wrote: > To avoid data loss, 'git worktree remove' refuses to delete a worktree > if it's dirty or contains untracked files. However, the error message > only mentions that the worktree "is dirty", even if the worktree in > question is in fact clean, b

[PATCH v4 3/6] commit-graph: turn on commit-graph by default

2019-08-13 Thread Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
From: Derrick Stolee The commit-graph feature has seen a lot of activity in the past year or so since it was introduced. The feature is a critical performance enhancement for medium- to large-sized repos, and does not significantly hurt small repos. Change the defaults for core.commitGraph and g

[PATCH v4 1/6] repo-settings: consolidate some config settings

2019-08-13 Thread Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
From: Derrick Stolee There are a few important config settings that are not loaded during git_default_config. These are instead loaded on-demand. Centralize these config options to a single scan, and store all of the values in a repo_settings struct. The values for each setting are initialized a

[PATCH v4 2/6] t6501: use 'git gc' in quiet mode

2019-08-13 Thread Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
From: Derrick Stolee t6501-freshen-objects.sh sends the standard error from 'git gc' to a file and verifies that it is empty. This is intended as a way to ensure no warnings are written during the operation. However, as the commit-graph is added as a step to 'git gc', its progress will appear in

[PATCH v4 4/6] repo-settings: parse core.untrackedCache

2019-08-13 Thread Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
From: Derrick Stolee The core.untrackedCache config setting is slightly complicated, so clarify its use and centralize its parsing into the repo settings. The default value is "keep" (returned as -1), which persists the untracked cache if it exists. If the value is set as "false" (returned as 0

[PATCH v4 5/6] repo-settings: create feature.manyFiles setting

2019-08-13 Thread Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
From: Derrick Stolee The feature.manyFiles setting is suitable for repos with many files in the working directory. By setting index.version=4 and core.untrackedCache=true, commands such as 'git status' should improve. While adding this setting, modify the index version precedence tests to check

[PATCH v4 6/6] repo-settings: create feature.experimental setting

2019-08-13 Thread Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
From: Derrick Stolee The 'feature.experimental' setting includes config options that are not committed to become defaults, but could use additional testing. Update the following config settings to take new defaults, and to use the repo_settings struct if not already using them: * 'pack.useSpars

[PATCH v4 0/6] Create 'feature.*' config area and some centralized config parsing

2019-08-13 Thread Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
This is a brand-new thread to replace ds/early-access. The discussion on that thread was very helpful [1]. With this in mind, I propose instead a set of "feature.*" config settings that form groups of "community recommended" settings (with some caveats). In the space below, I'll list a set of poss

Re: [RFC PATCH] unpack-trees.c: handle empty deleted ita files

2019-08-13 Thread René Scharfe
Am 13.08.19 um 18:03 schrieb Varun Naik: > It is possible to delete a committed file from the index and then add it > as intent-to-add. Several variations of "reset" and "checkout" should > resurrect the file in the index from HEAD. "merge", "cherry-pick", and > "revert" should all fail with an err

Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] apply: reload .gitattributes after patching it

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
"brian m. carlson" writes: > When applying multiple patches with git am, or when rebasing using the > am backend, it's possible that one of our patches has updated a > gitattributes file. Currently, we cache this information, so if a > file in a subsequent patch has attributes applied, the file w

[PATCH] worktree remove: clarify error message on dirty worktree

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
To avoid data loss, 'git worktree remove' refuses to delete a worktree if it's dirty or contains untracked files. However, the error message only mentions that the worktree "is dirty", even if the worktree in question is in fact clean, but contains untracked files: $ git worktree add test-workt

Re: How to reset selected lines?

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > Git's index and trees only understand whole files, so at some point you > must generate the final file content. A diff is an easy way to represent > the changes, apply them to the existing state, and then get that final > content. But it doesn't _have_ to be. You could make so

Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Call do_quit before destroying the main window

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Pratyush Yadav writes: >> The Git community members needs to be able to trust that the new >> Git-gui maintainer would make a sensible decision when picking up >> (or asking to improve) a patch from the list to collect and forward >> to me. We somehow need to make sure that happens. > > Yes, b

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 6/6] rebase: add --author-date-is-committer-date

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Rohit Ashiwal writes: > The previous commit introduced --ignore-date flag to interactive > rebase, but the name is actually very vague in context of rebase -i > since there are two dates we can work with. Add an alias to convey > the precise purpose. This sounds more like the existing "--reset-a

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 5/6] rebase -i: support --ignore-date

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Phillip Wood writes: >> +static void push_dates(struct child_process *child) >> +{ >> +time_t now = time(NULL); >> +struct strbuf date = STRBUF_INIT; >> + >> +strbuf_addf(&date, "@%"PRIuMAX, (uintmax_t)now); >> +argv_array_pushf(&child->args, "--date=%s", date.buf); > > it doesn't

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 3/6] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Phillip Wood writes: >> + if (opts->committer_date_is_author_date) { >> +size_t len; >> +int res = -1; >> +struct strbuf datebuf = STRBUF_INIT; >> +char *date = read_author_date_or_null(); > > You must always check the return value of functions t

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] path: add a function to check for path suffix

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
SZEDER Gábor writes: > ... And that function must be able to handle multiple path > components, becase there is this callsite: > > exec-cmd.c: !(prefix = strip_path_suffix(executable_dirname, > GIT_EXEC_PATH)) && > > and the build sets '-DGIT_EXEC_PATH="libexec/git-core"' by default.

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] path: add a function to check for path suffix

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
"brian m. carlson" writes: > Well, I split it out from a function that handles multiple path > components, mostly so that I could leverage existing work (and not have > to worry about getting it wrong). It wasn't explicitly intended that it > support multiple components, since I don't require tha

Re: suggestion for improved docs on autocrlf

2019-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Torsten Bögershausen writes: >> Sigh. Okay, great, life makes sense again. I want to yell at my >> IDE now. >> >> I now feel brave enough to attempt to come up with better wording >> for autocrlf docs, if you think that's worth trying. > > That would be good, I am happy to review patches. Good

[RFC PATCH] unpack-trees.c: handle empty deleted ita files

2019-08-13 Thread Varun Naik
It is possible to delete a committed file from the index and then add it as intent-to-add. Several variations of "reset" and "checkout" should resurrect the file in the index from HEAD. "merge", "cherry-pick", and "revert" should all fail with an error message. This patch provides the desired behav

RE: suggestion for improved docs on autocrlf

2019-08-13 Thread Yagnatinsky, Mark
> Would you like to elobarate which IDE that is? IntelliJ from JetBrains. I'm planning on emailing them to at least mention this somewhere in their own docs, because I think it's not there. Will attempt revised wording soon-ish, but not promising today. -

Re: How to reset selected lines?

2019-08-13 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 07:48:16PM +0530, Pratyush Yadav wrote: > To put things into context of why I am asking this, git-gui has a > feature where you can select parts of a displayed diff, and can > stage/unstage those parts. That feature is implemented in git-gui by > just generating a diff f

Re: suggestion for improved docs on autocrlf

2019-08-13 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 03:31:43PM +, Yagnatinsky, Mark wrote: > Thank you once more. Finally, I believe I understood everything you said. > I was about to say that this contradicts my own experience. > But then I remembered that I normally use my IDE rather than the command line. > And I just

RE: suggestion for improved docs on autocrlf

2019-08-13 Thread Yagnatinsky, Mark
Thank you once more. Finally, I believe I understood everything you said. I was about to say that this contradicts my own experience. But then I remembered that I normally use my IDE rather than the command line. And I just checked that indeed that the behavior of my IDE is totally different! It r

Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] fetch: Add the "--fetch-jobs" option

2019-08-13 Thread Eric Wong
Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c > index 8aa6a0caf1ab..fa12ad44e7d9 100644 > --- a/builtin/fetch.c > +++ b/builtin/fetch.c > +static int next_remote_to_fetch(struct child_process *cp, > + struct strbuf *out, > +

How to reset selected lines?

2019-08-13 Thread Pratyush Yadav
Hi, To put things into context of why I am asking this, git-gui has a feature where you can select parts of a displayed diff, and can stage/unstage those parts. That feature is implemented in git-gui by just generating a diff from the selected lines, and then applying it. Check git-gui/lib/dif

Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Call do_quit before destroying the main window

2019-08-13 Thread Pratyush Yadav
On 09/08/19 01:03PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Pratyush Yadav writes: > > >> If you meant to volunteer to act as a git-gui maintainer, that would > >> be wonderful. Then I do not have to play an interim maintainer. > > > > Yes, I do mean to volunteer to act as a git-gui maintainer. > > > > Is ther

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 3/6] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date

2019-08-13 Thread Phillip Wood
On 12/08/2019 20:42, Rohit Ashiwal wrote: rebase am already has this flag to "lie" about the committer date by changing it to the author date. Let's add the same for interactive machinery. Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal --- Documentation/git-rebase.txt| 8 +++- builtin/rebase.c

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 4/6] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_rename

2019-08-13 Thread Phillip Wood
Hi Rohit On 12/08/2019 20:42, Rohit Ashiwal wrote: The purpose of amend_author was to free() the malloc()'d string obtained from get_author() while amending a commit. But we can also use the variable to free() the author at our convenience. Rename it to convey this meaning. Thanks for rewordin

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 5/6] rebase -i: support --ignore-date

2019-08-13 Thread Phillip Wood
Hi Rohit This is looking better - there are a couple of memory management issues and minor nit-picks but apart from that it looks good. On 12/08/2019 20:42, Rohit Ashiwal wrote: rebase am already has this flag to "lie" about the author date by changing it to the committer (current) date. Let'

[PATCH v3 1/2] path: add a function to check for path suffix

2019-08-13 Thread brian m. carlson
We have a function to strip the path suffix from a commit, but we don't have one to check for a path suffix. For a plain filename, we can use basename, but that requires an allocation, since POSIX allows it to modify its argument. Refactor strip_path_suffix into a helper function and a new function

[PATCH v3 0/2] Honor .gitattributes with rebase --am

2019-08-13 Thread brian m. carlson
This series makes rebase --am honor the .gitattributes file for subsequent patches when a patch changes it. Changes from v2: * Rename has_path_suffix to ends_with_path_components. Changes from v1: * Add has_path_suffix in a separate commit. brian m. carlson (2): path: add a function to check f

[PATCH v3 2/2] apply: reload .gitattributes after patching it

2019-08-13 Thread brian m. carlson
When applying multiple patches with git am, or when rebasing using the am backend, it's possible that one of our patches has updated a gitattributes file. Currently, we cache this information, so if a file in a subsequent patch has attributes applied, the file will be written out with the attribute

Re: git grep -F (fixed string) requires matching parenthesis?

2019-08-13 Thread nanaya
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, at 21:17, Jeff King wrote: > But I think it's actually happening at a level above that. git-grep > supports multiple patterns, which can be joined with --and, --or, --not, > etc. And they can be grouped with parentheses. > > What you're seeing is the argument parser thinki

[PATCH 03/11] completion: add tests for 'git config' completion

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
The next patches will change/refactor the way we complete configuration variable names and values, so add a few tests to cover the basics, namely the completion of matching configuration sections, full variable names, and their values. Note that the test checking the completion of configuration se

[PATCH 09/11] completion: complete values of configuration variables after 'git -c var='

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
'git config' expects a configuration variable's name and value in separate options, so we complete values as they stand on their own on the command line. 'git -c', however, expects them in a single option joined by a '=' character, so we should be able to complete values when they are following 's

[PATCH 01/11] completion: fix a typo in a comment

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor --- contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index e087c4bf00..cd9d8e1940 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.b

[PATCH 00/11] completion: complete configuration variables and values after 'git -c '

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
Recently I've been writing 'git -c foo.bar ...' often enough that typing our long configuration variables got annoying... So this patch series teaches our Bash completion script to complete supported configuration variables and their values after 'git -c ', and, while at it, after 'git clone -c '

[PATCH 06/11] completion: simplify inner 'case' pattern in __gitcomp()

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
The second '*' in the '--*=*' pattern of the inner 'case' statement of the __gitcomp() helper function never matches anything, so let's use '--*=' instead. The purpose of that inner case statement is to decide when to append a trailing space to the listed options and when not. When an option requ

[PATCH 08/11] completion: complete configuration sections and variable names for 'git -c'

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
'git config' expects a configuration variable's name and value in separate arguments, so we let the __gitcomp() helper append a space character to each variable name by default, like we do for most other things (--options, refs, paths, etc.). 'git -c', however, expects them in a single option join

[PATCH 02/11] completion: complete more values of more 'color.*' configuration variables

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
Most 'color.*' configuration variables, with the sole exception of 'color.pager', accept the same set of values, but our completion script recognizes only about half of them. We could explicitly add all those missing variables, but let's try to reduce future maintenance burden, and use the catch-a

[PATCH 05/11] completion: use 'sort -u' to deduplicate config variable names

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
The completion script runs the classic '| sort | uniq' pipeline to deduplicate the output of 'git help --config-for-completion'. 'sort -u' does the same, but uses one less external process and pipeline stage. Not a bit win, as it's only run once as the list of supported configuration variables is

[PATCH 10/11] completion: complete config variables names and values for 'git clone -c'

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
The previous commits taught the completion script how to complete configuration section, variable names, and their valus after 'git -c ', and with a bit of foresight encapsulated all that in a dedicated helper function. Use that function to complete the unstuck argument of 'git config -c|--config

[PATCH 07/11] completion: split _git_config()

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
_git_config() contains two enormous case statements, one to complete configuration sections and variable names, and the other to complete their values. Split these out into two separate helper functions, so in the next patches we can use them to implement completion for 'git -c '. Signed-off-by:

[PATCH 11/11] completion: complete config variables and values for 'git clone --config='

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
Completing configuration sections and variable names for the stuck argument of 'git clone --config=' requires a bit of extra care compared to doing the same for the unstuck argument of 'git clone --config ', because we have to deal with that '--config=' being part of the current word to be complete

[PATCH 04/11] completion: deduplicate configuration sections

2019-08-13 Thread SZEDER Gábor
The number of configuration variables listed by the completion script grew quite when we started to auto-generate it from the documentation [1], so we now complete them in two steps: first we list only the section names, then the rest [2]. To get the section names we simply strip everything follow

Re: git grep -F (fixed string) requires matching parenthesis?

2019-08-13 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 03:01:04PM +0900, nanaya wrote: > I observed this today: > > $ git grep -F '(' > fatal: unmatched parenthesis > > Which doesn't make sense and I believe shouldn't happen. At first glance this looks like we're feeding a fixed-string pattern to the regex compiler, which wo

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 3/6] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date

2019-08-13 Thread Phillip Wood
On 13/08/2019 11:38, Phillip Wood wrote: Hi Rohit [...] @@ -964,6 +976,25 @@ static int run_git_commit(struct repository *r,   {   struct child_process cmd = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT; +    if (opts->committer_date_is_author_date) { +    size_t len; +    int res = -1; +    struct strbu

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 1/6] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag

2019-08-13 Thread Phillip Wood
Hi Rohit Thanks for the re-roll On 12/08/2019 20:42, Rohit Ashiwal wrote: There are two backends available for rebasing, viz, the am and the interactive. Naturally, there shall be some features that are implemented in one but not in the other. One such flag is --ignore-whitespace which indicate

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2019-08-13 Thread Katie Higgins
Unë jam Katie Higgins. Ju lutemi mund të diskutojmë?

Re: [GSoC] My project blog

2019-08-13 Thread Christian Couder
Hi Matheus, On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 6:06 AM Matheus Tavares Bernardino wrote: > > I just posted a new update on my project: > https://matheustavares.gitlab.io/posts/simplified-version-of-parallel-inflation Great blog post as usual! > This week I sent a simplified version of the series I was wor

Re: [GSoC][PATCH v2 3/6] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date

2019-08-13 Thread Phillip Wood
Hi Rohit This is looking good, I think it is almost there now On 12/08/2019 20:42, Rohit Ashiwal wrote: rebase am already has this flag to "lie" about the committer date by changing it to the author date. Let's add the same for interactive machinery. Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal --- Documen