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Re: How far should we trust ChangeLog attribution dates?

On 12/21/2017 04:13 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>:
>> I think we've routinely made the ChangeLog date the commit date.
> 
> Ah, so you modify patches as they come in?
Yes we routinely twiddle the ChangeLog dates.  In fact we tried to
discourage folks from including the date/author line in their patch
submissions in tthe past (with marginal success).

I think glibc does the same.

jeff
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