Re: [PATCH] format-patch: use current date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header line

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2010, 18:16 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1vee0wsa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201004151735.31415.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

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> Chris Webb wrote:
>> 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!
>
> Have you read
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/124082/focus=124092

Thanks for a sanity.