Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2009-01-09 14:23 skrev Eric Blake:
> According to Peter Rosin on 1/9/2009 3:11 AM:
> > I don't have gnulib-tool, which is mentioned in that file, how do I get
> > hold of that tool (for cygwin)?
>
> Here's how to get a shallow gnulib clone, then build git-merge-changelog:

*snip*

Great, thanks, works like a charm!

> > Hmm, is it allowed for ChangeLog entries to not be in chronological
> > order? Or should I redate them when I rebase?
>
> That point is a bit fuzzy; personally, I'm okay with preserving the date
> that a patch was written, but ordering the changelog in the order patches
> were applied (so dates are out of order), but rewriting the entries to
> have the date of the merge is also probably acceptable.

Ok, went with keeping the dates the patches were applied to the old
branch.

I'm doing the rebase now, thanks for the help.

Cheers,
Peter