From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timo Hirvonen Subject: Re: git-format-patch Date header Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:37:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20060108173736.199df297.tihirvon@gmail.com> References: <20060108141457.8C4E85BE8F@nox.op5.se> <20060108164038.89e4439f.tihirvon@gmail.com> <43C12DE9.8010906@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 08 16:37:58 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 1Evcc6-00076K-Fm for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:37:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752639AbWAHPhl (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:37:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752640AbWAHPhl (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:37:41 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.195]:15629 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752639AbWAHPhl (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:37:41 -0500 Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s2so37464uge for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:37:39 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lE1o1Fg9xgQhbj74rODQyMBJs75sx1mvlzIW+SPElAL9jnIQfmbOn3EC/lwOgMI6mj0bmxZASz3M38LDvNa4xrC2QaMtNrsRnV/XEWfOSmjerGS+hKY7hAI9qRXk9nPI8zSAzAtzAlWMuv447FYTrOAa27SKAHWiBBO16Ks+WdY= Received: by 10.67.40.15 with SMTP id s15mr725243ugj; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from garlic.home.net ( [82.128.203.84]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id j3sm11161808ugd.2006.01.08.07.37.38; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:37:38 -0800 (PST) To: Andreas Ericsson In-Reply-To: <43C12DE9.8010906@op5.se> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0beta2 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:21:13 +0100 Andreas Ericsson 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. -- http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/