Re: commit 9d0f14

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Thursday, 22 March 2018 10:34:14 Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>  [9d0f14] (HEAD, master) by Ethan A Merritt Ethan A Merritt
> 
> another try at timestamp.h, this time using build date
> 
> The Makefile rule for timestamp.h was broken when we switched from
> cvs to git, since it relied on ChangeLog always being current.
> Proposed replacement rules have so far failed to work for out-of-tree
> builds or builds from a snapshot rather than a full git clone.
> This attempt simply uses the current build date, which admittedly may
> not be newer than the last-modified date but at least has the virtue
> of not depending on git.
> 
> 
> However, git date reflects last commit date and not newer than build date.
> Build date is not later than the last commit date.
> It is usually newer than the last commit date.

Yes.  The text of the commit message was wrong.
Sorry.

I wish there was a way to edit commit messages afterwards.
That is the thing I dislike the about about git so far.
You cannot go back and fix typos or errors in the commit
messages.

	Ethan

> 
> Tatsuro