On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 09:11:04AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > 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?
Yes please. As for the date, that should be the date you applied the change. (With a VCS, use the appropriate command-line switches, e.g., git commit --date=date.) https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Style-of-Change-Logs.html#Style-of-Change-Logs
