Hi! On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:55:28 -0500, "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > 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?
No, that's general GNU policy, see <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Style-of-Change-Logs.html>: "When you install someone else’s changes [...] for the date, that should be the date you applied the change." > 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. ..., and the the person doing the commit is expected to change that to the current date. (Don't ask me why...) Grüße Thomas
