Re: Fixing commit dates before pushing

Guinevere Larsen via Gdb <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 14:46:42 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/12/26 11:15 AM, Simon Marchi via Gdb wrote:
> 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
>
I did see that in the contributor checklist, but since the history log 
already had dates that were out of order, I never bothered with doing 
it. I can start if we think it is important, but for whatever my vote is 
worth, I think we can drop it...

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Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
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