Jason Merrill <ja...@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?
When I was an active Emacs contributor but did not have commit access
yet, it was strongly expected that if you shipped a patch to be merged
it would include a ChangeLog entry. The attribution line would be
therefore have to be the date you made your patch - you couldn't know
the commit date in advance.
Is this not general practice on FSF projects?
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