On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 12:18:03AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > > Is there any way to keep the commit dates and dates of ChangeLog entries > in order for the new commits? In the past it has been quite confusing > trying to make sense of commits when the dates are out of order and > trying to understand when commits were actually made.
It is possible, but it complicates quite a bit, as this means rewritting the history, and after each cherry picking, the branch has to be rebased. It is possible to change all the dates in the ChangeLog after the whole branch has been incorporated. Should I do that? > Perhaps it is time to start a new ChangeLog file as the current file > is now at least twice the size of the other archived files. > > I am curious about the last point - does this mean that tree elements > now only have one list of child elements (contents only), not two lists > (contents and args)? Yes. When there was both args and contents, I added a new container that was first in the contents and the args are now the contents of this container. -- Pat
