Phillip Wood <phillip.wood...@gmail.com> writes: > That's an important distinction, particularly if GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is > set in the environment - are we aiming to have the author and > committer dates match or are we just resetting the author date to now? > Rohit - do you know which --ignore-date does in the am based rebase?
The purpose "am --ignore-date" was to ignore "Date:" that came from the patch message, overriding it with the current date. It might have become harder to read in the C version, but "git show v2.0.0:git-am.sh" would be an easier way to read how "--ignore-date" wanted to behave.
