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changeset 30850:befd90253848
Document the new change-log-redate command.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:47:20 +0000 |
| parents | cac6b0fce0ec |
| children | f9233f642b88 |
| files | man/programs.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/programs.texi Wed Aug 16 12:14:15 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/programs.texi Wed Aug 16 12:47:20 2000 +0000 @@ -1779,6 +1779,22 @@ files into a buffer in Change Log Mode, preserving the date ordering of entries with either the current or old-style date formats. +@findex change-log-redate +@cindex converting change log date style + Versions of Emacs before 20.1 used a format for the time of the change +log entry that was different from what it uses now: + +@smallexample +Fri May 25 11:23:23 1993 Richard Stallman <rms@@gnu.org> +@end smallexample + +@noindent +The @kbd{M-x change-log-redate} command converts all the old-style date +entries in the change log file visited in the current buffer to the new +format, so that all entries are kept in unified format. This is handy +when the entries are contributed by many different people some of whom +still use old versions of Emacs. + Version control systems are another way to keep track of changes in your program and keep a change log. @xref{Log Buffer}.