From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: git-format-patch Date header Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:21:13 +0100 Message-ID: <43C12DE9.8010906@op5.se> References: <20060108141457.8C4E85BE8F@nox.op5.se> <20060108164038.89e4439f.tihirvon@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 08 16:21:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvcMO-0003uF-5N for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:21:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752638AbWAHPVP (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:21:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752634AbWAHPVP (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:21:15 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:9092 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752638AbWAHPVO (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:21:14 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.19] (1-2-9-7a.gkp.gbg.bostream.se [82.182.116.44]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C166BCBE; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:21:13 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Timo Hirvonen In-Reply-To: <20060108164038.89e4439f.tihirvon@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. 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. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231