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: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:57:41 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fvd34ecq.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <21622.54248.721592.407612@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <83ioi0oc6a.fsf@gnu.org> <87a93c5fgt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83lhmvn2qi.fsf@gnu.org> <87oarr4mg9.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83d287mvn5.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 1417183063 32385 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2014 13:57:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:57:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 14:57:36 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 1XuM3E-0006KE-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:57:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuM3D-0001mO-My for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuM2w-0001mF-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuM2q-0005pt-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuM2q-0005pn-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:57:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XuM2o-000693-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:57:10 +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 14:57:10 +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 14:57:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 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:XD3uUMDReU7z6mrWmiKVSfSyVUA= 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:178412 Archived-At: On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:06:54 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> It will be painful and I think faking the date was an artifact of the >> static ChangeLog system rather than actually needed. It would probably >> be better to preserve the original commit date in the auto-generated >> ChangeLog but add a note that the commit was merged/backported to branch >> X on date Y. EZ> Seen from the master's POV, keeping the dates from the original EZ> (branch) commits would be rewriting history, because the actual date EZ> the commits appeared on master are different. But the commit's date is "baked" into it by Git. So there's no "master" POV for commit dates, only for when the commits are accessible via "master" (and both dates are relevant, hence I suggested adding a note). Ted