[PATCH] Script to generate ChangeLog-like output from git log

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Sep 20 16:53:00 GMT 2019


On Fri, 20 Sep 2019, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:

> Thank you so much for doing this.  The patch looks good to me, although I
> think it would be a little bit better to use the commit date, instead of
> the author date, because it would make the order of the commits look a bit
> more sane and it would more closely resemble what we have today.

Yes, use of the commit date accords with what the GNU Coding Standards say 
about the ChangeLog format ("As for the date, that should be the date you 
applied the change.").

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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