Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:36480 "EHLO mail-wg0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932110AbbGGIXe (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 04:23:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <559B85CD.6040200@users.sourceforge.net> References: <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> <558EB32E.6090003@users.sourceforge.net> <558EB4DE.3080406@users.sourceforge.net> <20150707023103.GA22043@kroah.com> <559B6FF8.9010704@users.sourceforge.net> <559B85CD.6040200@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:23:32 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20150707_102418_656197_DC81504A) Subject: Re: Clarification for the use of additional fields in the message body From: Frans Klaver To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Chris Park , Dean Lee , Johnny Kim , Rachel Kim , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Julia Lawall , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:54 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote: >> No need to try and preserve it. > > I find that it might occasionally help to share and keep the record > on timestamps about the evolution for an original update suggestion. I think that as far as these kernel mailing lists are concerned, the date of the update suggestion is the date on which you submitted the patch, rather than the date you originally committed it to your local tree. If you wish to keep track of this evolution for yourself, or wish to share it, you're better off stashing it somewhere in a (public) git repo that you control. If you wish, you can always make mention of that repo below the ---, just above the diffstat. If you insist on placing the date somewhere, you can also put the date there if you wish. It'll be ignored by git when applied. Cheers, Frans