Re: Update on the branch surgery

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

Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...>:
> >Huh.
> >On the one hand, that makes sense.
> >On the other hand there must also be a CVS check-in date for that change.
> >Why would you trust the text field in the ChangeLog more than the
> >check-in date?
> 
> We do trust the check-in date; that becomes the commit timestamp in the git
> repository. What we are trying to reconstruct is the correct Author and
> author timestamp.

Daniel is correct. Picking up this bad date is an artifact of ChangeLog mining.
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