* lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el (autoload-timestamps):

Experiment with setting to nil.

; * etc/NEWS: Mention this.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 9ffd7b739ef452d155d856b45e2a9f33f5c96dc5..a9ce26530352ed71a720bedb3aebf83794ca9fa8 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ Put your function on `window-size-change-functions' instead.
 
 ** Autoload files can be generated without timestamps,
 by setting `autoload-timestamps' to nil.
+FIXME As an experiment, nil is the current default.
+If no insurmountable problems before next release, it can stay that way.
 
 ** `ert-with-function-mocked' of 'ert-x package allows mocking of functions
 in unit tests.

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
index 8f2b5337ea7075f0872b734eed75dc9f527cb775..1b06fb6a51d0195be2da15735a4934096abcfb40 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ that text will be copied verbatim to `generated-autoload-file'.")
 (defconst generate-autoload-section-continuation ";;;;;; "
   "String to add on each continuation of the section header form.")
 
-(defvar autoload-timestamps t
+(defvar autoload-timestamps nil                ; experimental, see bug#22213
   "Non-nil means insert a timestamp for each input file into the output.
 We use these in incremental updates of the output file to decide
 if we need to rescan an input file.  If you set this to nil,