On Thu, 21 Dec 2017, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com>: > > I think we've routinely made the ChangeLog date the commit date. > > Ah, so you modify patches as they come in?
Yes. It's explicitly documented at https://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html#checkin - "Use the current date/time for the ChangeLog entry, not the time that the patch was submitted.". (Personally I find author dates generally unhelpful when they differ significantly from commit dates - author dates on a patch or patch series that was many times revised and rebased tend to relate to an old version of the patch and provide no clue to when one might find discussions relating to anything similar to the final committed version - they also mean you need to explicitly query with "git tag --contains" to see what releases had a fix, or look at commit dates, rather than knowing it at a glance from the date displayed by default which is the author date.) -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
