Re: [PATCH v10] tilegx network driver: initial support

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 16:44 -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> On 6/7/2012 4:39 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:42:03 -0400
> >
> >> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:42:03 -0400
> > You did not commit this file on April 6th.
> >
> > Please don't use the date emitted by the GIT tools, just
> > let the email use the natural correct date which is the
> > one at the time you send the email out.
> >
> > Otherwise your patch gets misordered as automated tools like
> > patchwork think this file should go all the way at the back
> > of the patch queue because of it's old date relative to
> > other pending patches.
> 
> Yes, when I use "git rebase" to merge changes into the earlier patch, this
> is the behavior I see.  I don't know if there's some way to tell git to
> take the date on the later change instead when I "squash" them.
[...]

git commit --amend --date="$(date)"

Ben.

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