From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry timestamp
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:32:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ejikit99.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B33A19.60405@ig.com.br> (Vinicius Jose Latorre's message of "Fri\, 03 Aug 2007 11\:22\:17 -0300")
Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br> writes:
> I've just noticed that entries timestamp in ChangeLog (trunk and Emacs
> 22 branch) are unsorted, that is, there are entries as:
>
> 2007-08-03 ...
> 2007-08-02 ...
> 2007-07-31 ... <<<
> 2007-08-03 ... <<<
> 2007-08-01 ...
> 2007-07-31 ...
> 2007-07-29 ...
> 2007-07-28 ...
> 2007-07-30 ... <<<
> 2007-07-29 ... <<<
> 2007-07-28 ...
> 2007-07-27 ...
> 2007-07-26 ...
> 2007-07-25 ...
> 2007-07-24 ...
> 2007-07-25 ... <<<
> 2007-07-24 ...
> 2007-07-23 ...
> 2007-07-20 ... <<<
> 2007-07-23 ...
> 2007-07-22 ...
> etc.
>
>
> Is this a problem? Should the entries be sorted?
No. The dates are when the patches have been created, the order is
according to when they have been committed. Even if people would
always commit immediately, we would not get calendar linearity because
of differing timezones.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 14:22 ChangeLog entry timestamp Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-08-03 14:32 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-08-03 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-03 14:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-03 15:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-08-03 15:55 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-03 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-03 15:51 ` Miles Bader
2007-08-03 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
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