Re: Fixing commit dates before pushing

Tom de Vries via Gdb <[email protected]> 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/[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?

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

Thanks,
Andrew