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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.adoc b/Documentation/git-am.adoc index 221070de48..264d21a7de 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-am.adoc @@ -161,6 +161,13 @@ Valid <action> for the `--whitespace` option are: commit creation as the committer date. This allows the user to lie about the committer date by using the same value as the author date. ++ +WARNING: The history walking machinery assumes that commits have +non-decreasing commit timestamps. You should consider if you really need +to use this option. Then you should only use this option to override the +committer date when applying commits on top of a base which commit is +older (in terms of the commit date) than the oldest patch you are +applying. --ignore-date:: By default the command records the date from the e-mail |