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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
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 18:19:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100415231945.GA20584@progeny.tock> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9946ffbdf26e7b08b9b00b87d4b575fea774be4c.1271342450.git.chris@arachsys.com>

Hi,

Chris Webb wrote:

> Put the current date in the 'From COMMIT DATE' header line instead of using
> the fixed date 'Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001'.

Please no.  It is useful that format-patch generates the same output
when run a few times in a row.

If it is important to have a realistic date, would the commit date or
similar work?

Jonathan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-15 23:19 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
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 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-04-16  7:52   ` [PATCH] format-patch: use current date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header line 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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