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x/vgo: go.mod: For git, date in pseudo-version should be AuthorDate instead of CommitDate #23973

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holygeek opened this issue Feb 21, 2018 · 2 comments
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x/vgo: go.mod: For git, date in pseudo-version should be AuthorDate instead of CommitDate #23973

holygeek opened this issue Feb 21, 2018 · 2 comments
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Mainly because git log, by default, shows only the AuthorDate. This is so that it will be easier for a human to verify that the date specified in go.mod matches the date shown in plain git log, barring timezone differences. Otherwise you have to run git log with --format=fuller in order to show CommitDate so that you can tally it with the one in go.mod.

$ cat go.mod
module "rsc.io/sampler"

require "golang.org/x/text" v0.0.0-20170915032832-14c0d48ead0c

See how the date shown below could seem to not match what is recorded in go.mod (superficially the time looks different, which could raise an eyebrow or two):

$ cd $GOPATH/src/golang.org/x/text
$ git log -1 --date=iso 14c0d48ead0c                
commit 14c0d48ead0cd47e3104ada247d91be04afc7a5a
Author: namusyaka <namusyaka@gmail.com>
Date:   2017-09-15 10:46:53 +0900

    docs: fix article typos
    
    a -> an
    
    Change-Id: Ia55603f09303598a1b0051606e83f018b3525c24
    Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/63993
    Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>

You'd have know that git commit has two associated dates (author date and commit date) in order to not be confused by the date specified in go.mod:

$ git log -1 --format=fuller --date=iso 14c0d48ead0c
commit 14c0d48ead0cd47e3104ada247d91be04afc7a5a
Author:     namusyaka <namusyaka@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2017-09-15 10:46:53 +0900
Commit:     Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
CommitDate: 2017-09-15 03:28:32 +0000

    docs: fix article typos
    
    a -> an
    
    Change-Id: Ia55603f09303598a1b0051606e83f018b3525c24
    Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/63993
    Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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mpx commented Feb 21, 2018

Including the date in a version makes it easier to understand if one version is newer than another (especially for untagged commits). Using the AuthorDate would remove this important property.

The commit ID a much better way to identify the commit in use.

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rsc commented Feb 22, 2018

The commit date is the date it landed in the public repo. That's the last time it was revised, which is what matters for approximate ordering. The date it was first written is much less relevant.

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