From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog dates Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:36:02 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87a93c5fgt.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <21622.54248.721592.407612@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <83ioi0oc6a.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417135532 3039 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2014 00:45:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:45:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 01:45:25 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 1Xu9gZ-0008Li-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 01:45:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu9gZ-0007mS-04 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:45:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33325) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu9gP-0007m8-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:45:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu9gK-000062-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:45:13 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54164) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu9gJ-00005H-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu9gG-0008Co-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 01:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 01:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 01:45:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XoIh6hgLmX6b9vLv1v4eyIz0Hss= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:178391 Archived-At: On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:12:13 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> 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? 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. Ted