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Re: How far should we trust ChangeLog attribution dates?
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: esr at thyrsus dot com, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:01:39 -0700
- Subject: Re: How far should we trust ChangeLog attribution dates?
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On 12/21/2017 03:55 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>:
>> YMD in the ChangeLog is typically commit date rather than authorship
>> date anyway, so (i) and (iii) shouldn't differ much at all, and (i)
>> seems simpler.
>
> I have not generally observed this to be true. Maybe it's a GCC-local thing?
I think we've routinely made the ChangeLog date the commit date.
> Is this not general practice on FSF projects?
Unsure.
jeff