From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog dates Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:12:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83ioi0oc6a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21622.54248.721592.407612@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417104747 7322 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2014 16:12:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 27 17:12:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu1fy-0007Q7-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:12:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu1fy-0003GU-6f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:12:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu1fn-0003Fy-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:12:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu1ff-0000Gi-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:12:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:62843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu1ff-0000GK-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFP00G00GSBQ000@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:11:54 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFP00GY8GZTKZ20@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:11:54 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <21622.54248.721592.407612@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178358 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:34:00 +0100 > From: Ulrich Mueller > > When merging commits or applying a patch, should the date in the > ChangeLog be left alone, or updated to the current date? In other > words, should the ChangeLog date be equal to git's AuthorDate (in > which case dates can be out of sequence) or CommitDate? Until now we did the latter, i.e. updated the entry's date to the date of the merge. I don't know what's TRT when ChangeLog's will be generated.