Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: Make output reproducible.

2024-04-15 Thread Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
Bruno Haible writes: > I don't agree with this patch. It misrepresents the dates on which people > have checked in their commits. Paul Eggert writes: > Emacs has had the tradition of using UTC for ChangeLog dates, so > please support that as well, as an option. This Emacs tradition dates >

Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: Make output reproducible.

2024-04-12 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2024-04-12 10:54, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list wrote: I'll try to come up with a fix. Emacs has had the tradition of using UTC for ChangeLog dates, so please support that as well, as an option. This Emacs tradition dates back to the RCS days, as RCS supports only UTC

Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: Make output reproducible.

2024-04-12 Thread Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
fre 2024-04-12 klockan 18:47 +0200 skrev Bruno Haible: > The ChangeLogs are not random data. They are text files meant to be > read > and interpreted by humans. Shoving a "let's use GMT for everyone" > attitude > here is not the right way to handle the diversity of time zones. > > There was a

Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: Make output reproducible.

2024-04-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Simon, > I ran into a reproducability problem in gitlog-to-changelog, and noticed > Guix people had also ran into this and worked around it outside of > gitlog-to-changelog: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70169/#21 > > However I don't think it makes sense for ChangeLog dates to depend on >

[PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: Make output reproducible.

2024-04-12 Thread Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
12 Apr 2024 17:25:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: Make output reproducible. * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: Use gmtime instead of localtime. --- ChangeLog | 5 + build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff