On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:46:30AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-10-30 23:41, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:01:16PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > keramida 2006-10-30 17:01:16 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD src repository (doc committer) > > > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_6) > > > share/man/man4 fdc.4 > > > Log: > > > The correct date for RELENG_X manpages is not the last time the > > > manpage was modified in the RELENG_X branch, but its last > > > modification date in HEAD. > > > > That means that every MFC I've done (recently, but possibly ever) is > > wrong... Will need some time to go through them all. > > Well it depends. Ruslan has kindly explained this in better > words, so I'm copying him here: > > % Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:37:24 +0300 > % From: Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > % Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 fdc.4 > % To: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > % > % On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:01:16PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > % > keramida 2006-10-30 17:01:16 UTC > % > > % > FreeBSD src repository (doc committer) > % > > % > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_6) > % > share/man/man4 fdc.4 > % > Log: > % > The correct date for RELENG_X manpages is not the last time the > % > manpage was modified in the RELENG_X branch, but its last > % > modification date in HEAD. > % > > % > Suggested by: ru > % > Approved by: re (bmah) > % > > % > Revision Changes Path > % > 1.34.8.2 +1 -1 src/share/man/man4/fdc.4 > % > % This is correct in case of MFC -- if you're making a RELENG_X > % specific change then the date should be update to the date of > % change in RELENG_X. Well, a common sense actually applies. ;) > > It makes sense, now that I've thought a bit about it. > > If you are 'pulling changes over' from another branch, you are > definitely modifying the file, but these changes were 'conceived' > at the date they were made in the original branch. Or something > like that, anyway :)
Makes sense.
> I don't think we have to go through each one of our MFC commits
> and retrospectively 'fix' that, because this will generate a huge
> number of commits!
Phew!
Ceri
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