Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> * 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.

If the answer is "tomorrow" than history was *not* changed (the old
commits still exist, they're just not referenced any more).  It's if the
answer is "today" that the history would be changed (by creating commit
"tomorrow" which pretend that they already existed "today").


        Stefan