Re: git-format-patch Date header

[Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:21:13 +0100
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

> Timo Hirvonen wrote:
> > git-format-patch uses "date '+%s %z'" format for the Date header.
> > Sylpheed does not understand this format.  How common this convention
> > is?  Should we change git-format-patch to use more standard date format?
> > 
> > OTOH, I like the %s format because it is so simple and easy to parse :)
> > 
> 
> Actually, that's what's printed in the commit message, so any change 
> would have to be put there and that would break backwards compatibility 
> for new tools that might want to use it.

So fixing Sylpheed (and maybe other email clients too) is the right
solution...

> On an unrelated note, please don't start a new thread by replying to an 
> old message. It's very confusing to follow and people may not see your 
> message. This time it was doubly so because the next mail in my inbox is 
> a patch for git-format-patch, to which I thought you replied.

Sorry.  I replied to your message because it was the message having Date
header in the "%s %z" format.

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