From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog dates
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:33:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lhmvn2qi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a93c5fgt.fsf@lifelogs.com>
> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:36:02 -0500
>
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:12:13 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:34:00 +0100
> >> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> >>
> >> 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?
>
> EZ> Until now we did the latter, i.e. updated the entry's date to the date
> EZ> of the merge. I don't know what's TRT when ChangeLog's will be
> EZ> generated.
>
> It's going to have to be the original date, because AFAIK it's part of
> the commit hash.
Of course; even I know that. But the script that generates ChangeLog
from the commit log could modify the dates, if we decide that to be
TRT.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-28 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-27 7:34 ChangeLog dates Ulrich Mueller
2014-11-27 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 0:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-11-28 11:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 13:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 19:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-29 20:02 ` Glenn Morris
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