Subject: Re: Clarification for the use of additional fields in the message
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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:27:38 +0200
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> Note also that some maintainers have work flow that deliberately smash
> the date (i.e., because they are using a system such as guilt),
> so if you are depending on the submitted timestamp, it's going to
> break on you.

Thanks for your hint.

I am just trying to offer the possibility for the reuse of a more
precise commit timestamp together with an appropriate author mail
address for my update suggestions.
Do you reject any more such message field overrides?

Regards,
Markus
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