From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog dates
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:36:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a93c5fgt.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83ioi0oc6a.fsf@gnu.org
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.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-28 0:36 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 [this message]
2014-11-28 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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