Re: script timestamps

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:29:15PM CEST:
> 
> How about the following?

That's fine, thanks.

> To make sure I understand the branching rules 
> correctly, I would simply apply this first to origin/branch-1-10, then merge 
> that onto origin/master?

No.  branch-1-10 was started before the move to git, and I never
fake-merged the common parts of it and master.  Please commit to master,
then cherry-pick into branch-1-10.  I've just pushed a couple of pending
cherry-picks in branch-1-10.

> config.guess, config.sub, and texinfo.tex are pulled from elsewhere; 
> additionally, their timestamps don't include hours (so the courser 
> granularity 
> reduces the likelihood of a timestamp moving backwards when two people edit 
> the 
> same script from different parts of the world within 24 hours).

Yes.

Thanks,
Ralf

> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:19:41 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] scripts: normalize all timestamps to UTC
> 
> * lib/compile (scriptversion): Update emacs hook.
> * lib/depcomp (scriptversion): Likewise.
> * lib/elisp-comp (scriptversion): Likewise.
> * lib/gnupload (scriptversion): Likewise.
> * lib/install-sh (scriptversion): Likewise.
> * lib/mdate-sh (scriptversion): Likewise.
> * lib/missing (scriptversion): Likewise.
> * lib/mkinstalldirs (scriptversion): Likewise.
> * lib/py-compile (scriptversion): Likewise.
> * lib/ylwrap (scriptversion): Likewise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>