ChangeLog files - server and client scripts

[Martin Liška]

On 5/14/20 6:47 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 14 May 2020, Martin Liška wrote:
> 
>> On 5/13/20 7:53 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>>> On Wed, 13 May 2020, Martin Liška wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm sending the gcc-changelog relates scripts which should be added to
>>>> contrib
>>>> folder. The patch contains:
>>>> - git_check_commit.py - checking script that verifies git message format
>>>
>>> We need a documentation patch to contribute.html or gitwrite.html that
>>> describes the exact commit message format being used.
>>
>> Sure, I'm sending patch for that.
> 
> Thanks.  There are references to author timestamps there.  The date in a
> ChangeLog entry should always be a commit timestamp, not an author one, so
> author timestamps present either in commit messages or in the git commit
> metadata should be ignored, with only the committer timestamps from the
> git commit metadata being used when generating ChangeLog files.

You are fully right, a committer date is what should be used.
Fixed in the documentation, note that the scripts use committed date.

Martin

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