From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CEDET Merge Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:08:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r348ul9n.fsf@gmail.com> <87lgugm2qg.fsf@gmail.com> <87inpelu8i.fsf@gmail.com> <837f5uajlk.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8aqlqz8.fsf@gmail.com> <8360leahxr.fsf@gnu.org> <8760lelq68.fsf@gmail.com> <83wpdt8yo2.fsf@gnu.org> <87inpd650y.fsf@gmail.com> <8660ldabje.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <8737gh5sqw.fsf@gmail.com> <87k29tv0r4.fsf@engster.org> <8737gguipm.fsf@engster.org> <87h94vdj3n.fsf@gmail.com> <87o9z2sog1.fsf@engster.org> <87vataadkk.fsf@red-bean.com> <87k29ps7ai.fsf@engster.org> <87fukds5kg.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1484957395 25154 195.159.176.226 (21 Jan 2017 00:09:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 00:09:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 21 01:09:51 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cUjFL-0004hY-LF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2017 01:09:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cUjFQ-0002f0-9y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:09:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47995) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cUjEq-0002ej-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:09:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cUjEn-0006Pw-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:09:00 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:41208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cUjEn-0006PC-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:08:57 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id v0L08sBW032002; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 23568661CB; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:08:54 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87fukds5kg.fsf@engster.org> (David Engster's message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2017 23:57:19 +0100") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV5926=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5926> : inlines <5638> : streams <1729953> : uri <2361326> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:211449 Archived-At: > Yes, git tracks 'Author' and 'Committer', each with their own date. So > the ChangeLog generator script would need to use the name from 'Author' > with the date from 'Committer'. But does it actually do that? If it doesn't, we can change it, so it's not a problem. > And wouldn't it be pretty confusing to have dates in the ChangeLog > that are years apart from those in the git log? That's how things are, by design (tho you can tweak your "git log" to also output the author date, if you want), so the confusion is not due to the "--date" argument (and can be fixed after the fact if we decide so, whereas retroactively fixing the author-date is a lot more difficult). Stefan