From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18708 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2014 14:23:21 -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 18693 invoked by uid 89); 4 Sep 2014 14:23:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_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; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:23:18 +0000 Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s84EMgGA010936 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 10:22:42 -0400 Received: from localhost (dhcp-10-15-16-169.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.169]) by int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s84EMfeY028473 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 10:22:41 -0400 From: Sergio Durigan Junior To: Gary Benson Cc: Andreas Schwab , Joel Brobecker , gdb@sourceware.org, Andreas Arnez , Doug Evans Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages 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> X-URL: http://www.redhat.com Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:23:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20140904090616.GA23758@blade.nx> (Gary Benson's message of "Thu, 4 Sep 2014 10:06:16 +0100") Message-ID: <87y4tzcvny.fsf@redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 On Thursday, September 04 2014, Gary Benson wrote: >> There is no such thing as a "push date". What you see is the author >> date and the committer date. But both are set during the local >> commit, and are unrelated to the point of time of pushing the >> commits to the remote repository. > > Yeah, in git no file (object) is modified when you push or pull > commits, they're just copied from one place to another. Yeah, sorry for not being fluent in git's parlance. > The committer date on the commit you mentioned is likely the time > I updated the ChangeLog prior to pushing, so that date will be the > "push date", but that's not guaranteed to be the case for all > commits. Right. Anyway, I still consider it is valid to include this info (author and date) in the commit message. Thanks, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 0x65FC5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/