Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261724AbVCJF4A (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:56:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261664AbVCJFzt (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:55:49 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:4809 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261724AbVCJFyS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:54:18 -0500 Subject: Re: bk commits and dates From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: References: <1110422519.32556.159.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:49:19 +1100 Message-Id: <1110433759.32524.174.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1618 Lines: 39 On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 19:28 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > I don't know if I'm the only one to have a problem with that, but it > > would be nice if it was possible, when you pull a bk tree, to have the > > commit messages for the csets in that tree be dated from the day you > > pulled, and not the day when they went in the source tree. > > Nope, that's against how BK works. It's really distributed, so "my" tree > has no special meaning, and as such the fact that I pull has no meaning > either - it doesn't trigger as anything special. Yes, but it would be easy to have the messages dated from the day they are sent :) Even if you put the real commit date in the message itself. It's really disturbing to receive mails dated a long time in the past don't you think ? > The only thing that ends up being special is when it hits the public tree > which has the trigger to send out the emails. IOW, the date of the _email_ > is special (in that it says when a commit hit the public tree), not not > the commits changesets themselves. Yes, but the email gets the old date. > Now, if James trigger scripts set the date of the email by the date of the > commit, that sounds like a misfeature, but you'd better talk to James, not > me, since he's the one doing that part.. Hah ok. Which James ? Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/