[PATCH] Ability to explicitly set timestamp for commit

[Magnus Therning]

I saw patch for this on the codeville mailing list and people seemed to
think it was useful for mirroring purposes. Here's an attempt to
implement it for bazaar.

/M

*** modified file 'bzrlib/commands.py'
--- bzrlib/commands.py 
+++ bzrlib/commands.py 
@@ -791,10 +791,10 @@
     TODO: Strict commit that fails if there are unknown or deleted files.
     """
     takes_args = ['selected*']
-    takes_options = ['message', 'file', 'verbose']
+    takes_options = ['message', 'file', 'verbose', 'committimestamp']
     aliases = ['ci', 'checkin']
 
-    def run(self, message=None, file=None, verbose=True, selected_list=None):
+    def run(self, message=None, file=None, verbose=True, selected_list=None, committimestamp=None):
         from bzrlib.commit import commit
 
         ## Warning: shadows builtin file()
@@ -808,8 +808,13 @@
             import codecs
             message = codecs.open(file, 'rt', bzrlib.user_encoding).read()
 
+        ctime = None
+        if committimestamp:
+            from time import strptime, mktime
+            ctime = mktime(strptime(committimestamp, '%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'))
+
         b = Branch('.')
-        commit(b, message, verbose=verbose, specific_files=selected_list)
+        commit(b, message, verbose=verbose, specific_files=selected_list, timestamp=ctime)
 
 
 class cmd_check(Command):


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