Re: Fixing commit dates before pushing

Simon Marchi via Gdb <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 10:15:33 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel
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On 5/12/26 4:19 AM, Tom de Vries via Gdb wrote:
> 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/[email protected]/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?

I must admit that I have never done this myself, so I am not very
attached to this rule.

Simon