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I haven't used JJ, so does it work the same in JJ than in Git? Did you introduced it intentionally or does the committer fields only exists, because this is how it is in Git and you had no reason to change it.

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Do you mean if jj has separate author and committer timestamps? Yes, we simply followed Git there. I didn't really question it. There has been some discussion about simplifying it to just one timestamp, however. You can probably find that discussion somewhere in our issue tracker if you're curious.

Or do you mean if jj updates the committer timestamp while leaving the author timestamp unchanged? Yes, that's also the same as what Git does.

Thanks, the first was what I asked, but the latter was also nice to know.

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