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From: Andrew Burgess via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>,
	"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Fixing commit dates before pushing
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:49:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v7cod8x4.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6789f4cc-cc39-4061-8079-195d5ef5a362@suse.de>

Tom de Vries via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> back in 2014, a requirement was added to the contribution checklist: 
> fixing commit dates ( 
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist#Fixing_commit_dates ).
>
> The related discussion is here ( 
> https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb/20140814083231.GA6283@blade.nx/T/#u ).
>
> Looking at recent commits, this is done by a few people, but not everybody.
>
> [ FWIW, I'm using a push script (see below) that takes care of this for 
> me. ]
>
> If not too many people actually do this, and nobody's complaining about 
> it, should we drop the requirement?

As some others have said, I have never done this myself, so I'm +1 for
dropping the rule.

Thanks,
Andrew


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-15 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-12  8:19 Tom de Vries via Gdb
2026-05-12 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2026-05-12 14:58   ` Arsen Arsenović via Gdb
2026-05-12 14:15 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb
2026-05-12 17:46   ` Guinevere Larsen via Gdb
2026-05-14 19:29   ` Tom Tromey
2026-05-15 14:49 ` Andrew Burgess via Gdb [this message]
2026-05-26 11:37 ` Tom de Vries via Gdb

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