Re: ChangeLog dates

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:12:13 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:34:00 +0100
>> From: Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden>
>> 
>> When merging commits or applying a patch, should the date in the
>> ChangeLog be left alone, or updated to the current date? In other
>> words, should the ChangeLog date be equal to git's AuthorDate (in
>> which case dates can be out of sequence) or CommitDate?

EZ> Until now we did the latter, i.e. updated the entry's date to the date
EZ> of the merge.  I don't know what's TRT when ChangeLog's will be
EZ> generated.

It's going to have to be the original date, because AFAIK it's part of
the commit hash.

Ted