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Re: How far should we trust ChangeLog attribution dates?
Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>:
> 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.
I was unaware of this. But I have just implemented and am now smoke-testing
a --use-committer-date policy switch for the changeLogs command. I will
add it to the lift file.
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