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: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:33:41 +0200 Message-ID: <83lhmvn2qi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21622.54248.721592.407612@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <83ioi0oc6a.fsf@gnu.org> <87a93c5fgt.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417163650 10066 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2014 08:34:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:34:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 09:34:04 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 1XuH07-0008TI-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:34:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43012 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuH06-0000Ve-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuGzy-0000T0-5S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:33:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuGzq-0004zK-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:33:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:46895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuGzq-0004z1-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:33:46 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFQ00000QED3P00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:33:44 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFQ000XFQG52C10@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:33:43 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87a93c5fgt.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:178402 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:36:02 -0500 > > 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. 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.