[darcs-devel] [issue1276] record should have a --date flag for spoofing dates

[Drew Perttula]

New submission from Drew Perttula <drewp at bigasterisk.com>:

twb and I were both expecting to find a --date flag on the record command, which
would be used to forge a different date in the unfortunate event that one has to
recreate some patches. In my current broken-repo situation, I think I can get
away with only rerecording today's patches, so I do not need a workaround (this
time). 

I'm not aware of any uses for the patch date inside darcs, so I would guess that
it would be harmless to let the user supply a wrong one.

The desperate admin who is recreating patches may also need to spoof the
username sometimes, but I think that's already trivial so it doesn't need a flag.

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messages: 6860
nosy: dmitry.kurochkin, drewp, kowey, simon, thorkilnaur
priority: wishlist
status: unread
title: record should have a --date flag for spoofing dates

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