From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:46:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow testing of _relative family of time formatting and parsing functions
Message-ID: <7vk50mz41e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090828205232.GD9233@blimp.localdomain>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> To complement the testability of approxidate.
> ---
> Alex Riesen, Fri, Aug 28, 2009 21:33:02 +0200:
>> 
>> It should allow safe testing of this part of the code.
>
> And this should really allow testing of it:
>
>     $ ./test-date '10.days.ago'
>     10.days.ago -> bad -> Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
>     10.days.ago -> Tue Aug 18 22:50:20 2009
>
>     relative: 10.days.ago -> Fri Dec 22 12:00:00 1989
>
>     relative: 10 days ago, out of Fri Dec 22 12:00:00 1989
>
>     $

What are these blank lines for?  Is this intended as a serious submission
for inclusion?  I am having a hrad time to guess, especially you did not
sign this off, nor Cc'ed me.