Re: Binutils release 2.28 - soon

[Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>]

On 29.12.2016 05:44, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> On 23.12.2016 10:13, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>>> I have just made the branch (I will be away next week so I preferred
>>> to make it before).  Do not hesitate to bump the gold version on
>>> master and on the branch.
>>
>> As with the 2.27 branch, the date bumps are not enabled on the 2.28 branch.
>> Maybe worth documenting for the release process.
> 
> Thanks for the heads up. IMO, we should resume the efforts in trying
> to get rid of that date (using the git revision when available instead),
> so as to avoid those daily checkins. On the branch especially, they
> completely drown the real commits, rendering the branch history
> very painful to read.
> 
> In the meantime, i've updated the branch name for the date bump.

thanks!  I still think using the date is more expressive than using a commit ID.
 So what about only bumping the date if the last commit is not a date bump?

Matthias