From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:31:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git format-patch from date never set
Message-ID: <81b0412b0907251531u7566813fr10bdd70187e9aca6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <325c62f60907251439n6f3f661dhf0e76a74ce1eaec8@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 23:39, Dan Savilonis<djs@n-cube.org> wrote:
> git format-patch always sets the date in the From: line to the git
> default date, e.g.
>
>    From b9ff0ba6f3e228e1a8b67a25bc7be6b1da5ed1f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>
> The command uses GIT_COMMITTER_DATE as the date, but this env variable
> is never set in cmd_format_patch(). Is this a bug or 'feature'?

Neither. This is not a date, but a part of "loosely defined" mbox format.