From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:51:50 GMT
Subject: Re: strange date generated by git-format-patch
Message-ID: <20070224185150.GB2646@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070224130839.GC4380@thunk.org>

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 08:08:39AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:

> The only potential problem with it is that some MUA's (like mutt for
> example) sort by the From date by default.  You can force it to list
> the patches in an unsorted order (via 'Ou'), but it might be nice if

That's not true; mutt sorts by date by default, but it pulls the default
from the "Date" header, which git correctly sets to the author timestamp.
You can convince mutt to look at the date in the 'From' line using a
'date-received' sort, but I don't know that it was ever the default.

-Peff