From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Brandon Richardson <brandon1024.br@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: format-patch: "magic" mbox timestamp
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:13:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmtzo6c0d.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAETBDP6d8UwiJEF_pX0p=xLG79pwHeEtectmOnjPiUpjUCPaqw@mail.gmail.com> (Brandon Richardson's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:54:47 -0400")
Brandon Richardson <brandon1024.br@gmail.com> writes:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming the "UNIX mailbox
> format" referenced in the docs refers to the mbox database format
> described in appendix A of RFC-4155. If so, since we use a commit id
> in place of the sender email address, would that itself be sufficient
> to indicate that the output isn't from a real mailbox? A commit id
> will never match the addr-spec in RFC-2822, so I figure that anyone
> looking at `format-patch` output could safely assume that it did not
> originate from a mailbox.
I vaguely recall that it was possible for the "From" line that
begins each message in a UNIX mbox had a local sender without "@",
so it would be a bit wider than addr-spec and a string of raw
hexadecimal digits would not sufficiently "strange" enough to serve
as a "magic" identifier.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-10 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 21:54 format-patch: "magic" mbox timestamp Brandon Richardson
2020-11-10 23:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-10 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-10 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=xmqqmtzo6c0d.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com \
--to=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de \
--cc=brandon1024.br@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.