From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab To: Jim Wilson Cc: law@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com, Martin von Loewis Subject: Re: Changelog time format Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 06:02:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <199805172212.PAA04043@rtl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-05/msg00626.html Jim Wilson writes: |> I noticed that this was installed, but it doesn't seem to do anything useful. |> Simply adding it to one of the ChangeLog files in gcc isn't interesting. |> We either add it to all of them or none of them. We can't add it to all |> of them unless we get everyone to agree that the old format is better. |> I doubt that we can get everyone to agree on the old format. The FSF |> would not have started using a new format by default unless they wanted |> everyone to use it. |> Also, the change isn't going to force all ChangeLog entries to use the |> new format. I always create a patch file, add the ChangeLog entry to the |> patch file, and then copy it into the ChangeLog file. Hence all of the |> patches I create on my Linux machine will continue to use the new format. IMHO the best solution would be to install a wrapper in CVS that converts the time stamps to the old format on checkin. The only problem is that the new format lacks timeofday information. -- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org