From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16903 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2014 10:13:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 16890 invoked by uid 89); 5 Sep 2014 10:13:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:13:37 +0000 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s85ADQCS015759 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:13:26 -0400 Received: from blade.nx (ovpn-116-113.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.113]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s85ADPN6026155; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:13:26 -0400 Received: by blade.nx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 03B5F2640D8; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:13:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:13:00 -0000 From: Gary Benson To: Doug Evans Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior , Andreas Schwab , Joel Brobecker , gdb , Andreas Arnez Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages Message-ID: <20140905101324.GA3731@blade.nx> References: <20140814083231.GA6283@blade.nx> <20140814125224.GF4924@adacore.com> <8761h4fmu4.fsf@redhat.com> <87mwage6x2.fsf@redhat.com> <871trsuz55.fsf@igel.home> <20140904090616.GA23758@blade.nx> <87y4tzcvny.fsf@redhat.com> <20140904173624.GA10113@blade.nx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140904173624.GA10113@blade.nx> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2 Gary Benson wrote: > Doug Evans wrote: > > If I do a git blame of server.c I see patch 860789c7 with a date > > of 2014-08-08. That's three weeks before it was pushed upstream. > > Bleah. I'd really like to be able to do a git blame and have what > > I see be useful, including the date. The author date is basically > > useless to me. > > I see some options to git-rebase, --committer-date-is-author-date > and --ignore-date. I'll experiment with these the next time I > rebase something and see what happens. Running "git rebase --ignore-date gdb/master" immediately prior to pushing sets both author and commit dates to the present time on all commits you are about to push. Cheers, Gary -- http://gbenson.net/