From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:57:27 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8738bwx254.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20140912043652.4D6D8380604@snark.thyrsus.com> <83zje56ymd.fsf@gnu.org> <20140912083430.GA32586@thyrsus.com> <87mwa59i1r.fsf@igel.home> <874mwcx3eo.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410538601 14843 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2014 16:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:16:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 18:16:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XSTWT-0001CL-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:16:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSTWT-0006YE-73 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSTV9-0004nK-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:15:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSTV4-0007qz-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60677) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSTV4-0007og-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XSTGV-0007gk-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: from x2f500ac.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.245.0.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by x2f500ac.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:00:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f500ac.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bobRVGZxZP8/YHhZVSNms0yc+0A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174235 Archived-At: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > Sam Steingold writes: > >>> * Andreas Schwab [2014-09-12 13:47:44 +0200]: >>> That's pretty easy if you are rebasing. >> >> Are you saying that rebasing changes the timestamp?! >> I.e., I make a commit X today and tomorrow rebase (= remove X; pull from >> upstream; reapply X) it. >> Is X now dated today or tomorrow? >> If the answer is "tomorrow", this looks like a bug. > > > Rebasing changes history, which includes timestamps. It's why it's such > a dangerous command, and some do argue strongly that its a bug. And some argue strongly that spiders are bugs, but if you are planning on getting anywhere in a discussion, they tend to contribute rather little of use. -- David Kastrup