From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:16:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: use current date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header line
Message-ID: <20100415151619.GK12365@arachsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <9946ffbdf26e7b08b9b00b87d4b575fea774be4c.1271342450.git.chris@arachsys.com>

Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> writes:

> Put the current date in the 'From COMMIT DATE' header line instead of using
> the fixed date 'Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001'. A DATE_UTC mode for show_date() is
> introduced so we can easily generate this line in the correct format.

...but this will break t4013-diff-various which expects the exact date
string 'Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001' in the mbox header. Patch to fix this test
to follow!

Cheers,

Chris.