GNU bug report logs - #20717
date of generated ChangeLog entries for (git)merged commits

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 06:23:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 20717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 20717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in
 generated	ChangeLog
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:52:53 -0400

> For commits on "mainline", you can use "git log --first-parent" to
> show only mainline commits, but this will not help you in the case in
> point.

Not only that: it will not always show you what you wanted to see, since
it's much too easy to make a commit where the first parent is not the
previous revision on the trunk but the previous revision in your own
local branch instead (and much too hard to avoid this situation).


        Stefan
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