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Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: James Hogan <james dot hogan at imgtec dot com>
- Cc: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>, Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>, gdb <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Andreas Arnez <arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 06:24:14 -0700
- Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages
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> IMHO this is a really bad idea.
I wouldn't say "a really bad", but I tend to agree with the reasoning.
It's a bit unnatural to me that git would chose to show the author
date by default over the commit date, but James is right that the
commit date is already there, and should largely reflect the date
when the commit was pushed. Thanks to our daily updates of the BFD
version, it's pretty much guaranteed that a contributor will always
have to rebase before being able to push.
--
Joel