Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult

[Yuri Khan]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:36 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> If the commit timestamp were anything but "tomorrow" it would be a bug.
> The whole point of a commit timestamp is to track who created a commit
> when.  Since a rebase creates commits, obviously the commit timestamp
> will correspond to the time of the rebase, and the commit author will
> correspond to the person doing the rebase.
>
> Which is exactly why using "commit author/timestamp" is not going to cut
> it as a unique identifier when rebases come into play.

Neither does author/timestamp uniquely identify a commit in a
rebaseful commit graph. But at least the commits having the same
author/timestamp all conceptually represent the same change.