Re: Update on the branch surgery

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

sfeam <sf...@us...>:
> The incorrect date comes from a typo in the ChangeLog.
>   https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/git-main/ci/50bc9c8abfd499a56717ccf324434bdc675e2bea/
> 
> Note, however, that typo is not present in the main branch copy of ChangeLog
> (actually ChangeLog.1) because it was later corrected.  That leads me to wonder
> which era of the ChangeLog text you guys are mining to assign dates during the
> git conversion.

For any given changeset, the only ChangeLog mined for attribution is the one
(if any) found in that particular changeset.
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