Suggested by Paul Eggert.
* lib/vc-mtime.c (git_mtime): Clarify CommitDate vs. AuthorDate.
+2025-02-25 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ vc-mtime: Improve comment.
+ Suggested by Paul Eggert.
+ * lib/vc-mtime.c (git_mtime): Clarify CommitDate vs. AuthorDate.
+
2025-02-24 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
vc-mtime: New module.
git_mtime (struct timespec *mtime, const char *filename)
{
/* Run "git log -1 --format=%ct -- FILENAME". It prints the time of last
- modification, as the number of seconds since the Epoch.
+ modification (the 'CommitDate', not the 'AuthorDate' which merely
+ represents the time at which the author locally committed the first version
+ of the change), as the number of seconds since the Epoch.
The '--' option is for the case that the specified file was removed. */
const char *argv[7];
pid_t child;