Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date

[Charles Duffy]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 23:34, Dustin Sallings wrote:
>       There once (before my time) was a patch that added a --date flag to 
> specify the commit date of a patch.  Does anyone know where this patch 
> used to live?
> 
>       I'm using cscvs to import code from many years ago and I'd like to 
> maintain an accurate chronology.

One alternative approach, btw, which just occurred to me:

cscvs could support the use of an LD_PRELOAD such as libfaketime to make
the system time appear to tla to be that at which a commit is supposed
to occur.

This still leaves us without a good way of changing my-id for just one
invocation (without any chance of leaving it in a bad state after an
unexpected exit) -- but perhaps the same approach could be applied there
as well.


An obvious drawback: This is not exactly a portable solution.