Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult

[Phillip Lord]

Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:

>> * Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> [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