From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:04:10 GMT
Subject: Re: strange date generated by git-format-patch
Message-ID: <7vtzxd6y9h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <38d46eb0702230055i587bc775r9362aafeef803976@mail.gmail.com>

"johan defries" <johandefries@gmail.com> writes:

> When I do
>
> #git-format-patch --stdout HEAD^|head -1 | grep --color "Mon Sep 17
> 00:00:00 2001"
>
> I really get a hit. "Sept 17 2001"?? It's strange, because the
> repository is so much younger.

That is just a fake random date to make the Unix-From line
recognizable by common MUA and does not have anything to do with
your commit objects.

The real date is on Date: header.