From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:30:07 +0100 Message-ID: <874mwcx3eo.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <20140912043652.4D6D8380604@snark.thyrsus.com> <83zje56ymd.fsf@gnu.org> <20140912083430.GA32586@thyrsus.com> <87mwa59i1r.fsf@igel.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410535839 9186 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2014 15:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 17:30:30 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 1XSSnt-0007It-6z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:30:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSns-0004Z6-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSnj-0004WV-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:30:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSne-0008RF-Nz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:30:19 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:41097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSnY-0008PV-C3; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSnX-0007jS-Fd; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:30:07 +0100 Original-Received: from jangai.ncl.ac.uk ([10.66.67.223] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSnX-00089w-NR; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:30:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Sam Steingold's message of "Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:12:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 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:174226 Archived-At: 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. Pity it's so useful really. Phil