From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: use current date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header line
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:55:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100415155523.GL12365@arachsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004151735.31415.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> Have you read
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/124082/focus=124092
I hadn't but have now. I don't buy the idea that this date is an unused
placeholder in mbox files, and therefore can be sensibly set to an arbitary
constant date in the distant past.
RFC4155 appendix A defines this date as the date a message was received.
This isn't directly applicable to the context of format-patch, but other
users of mbox format (e.g. MUAs doing an fcc) tend to fill it with the date
the message was generated, and might reasonably expect to be able to
sort on this date, e.g. when displaying a drafts folder.
If nothing else, it's extremely surprising to run format-patch, see a
ridiculous date and wonder how your system time has become corrupted while
you've been working!
Cheers,
Chris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-15 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-15 14:41 [PATCH] format-patch: use current date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header line Chris Webb
2010-04-15 15:16 ` Chris Webb
2010-04-15 15:35 ` Thomas Rast
2010-04-15 15:55 ` Chris Webb [this message]
2010-04-17 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-15 15:57 ` [PATCH] Fix t4013 with current date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header lines Chris Webb
2010-04-15 23:19 ` [PATCH] format-patch: use current date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header line Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-16 7:52 ` Chris Webb
2010-04-16 16:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] format-patch: use commit " Chris Webb
2010-04-16 16:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] Fix t4013 with commit date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header lines Chris Webb
2010-04-16 17:59 ` Santi Béjar
2010-04-17 8:01 ` [PATCH v3] format-patch: use commit date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header line Chris Webb
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