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[PATCH] Documentation: fix typos describing date format

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Date
Apr 12, 2024, 08:51 UTC
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<pull.1716.git.1712911876943.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com>

This commit corrects a typographical error found in both date-formats.txt and git-fast-import.txt documentation, where the term `email format` was mistakenly used instead of `date format`.

Signed-off-by: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com>
---
    Documentation: fix typos describing date format
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1716%2Fblanet%2Fxx%2Fdocumentation-typofix-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1716/blanet/xx/documentation-typofix-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1716
 Documentation/date-formats.txt    | 2 +-
 Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
index 67645cae64f..e24517c496f 100644
--- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Git internal format::
 	For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is `+0100`.
 
 RFC 2822::
-	The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
+	The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example
 	`Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.
 
 ISO 8601::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index b2607366b91..0ccede255ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ and some sanity checks on the numeric values may also be performed.
 	with e.g. bogus timezone values.
 
 `rfc2822`::
-	This is the standard email format as described by RFC 2822.
+	This is the standard date format as described by RFC 2822.
 +
 An example value is ``Tue Feb 6 11:22:18 2007 -0500''.  The Git
 parser is accurate, but a little on the lenient side.  It is the

base-commit: 436d4e5b14df49870a897f64fe92c0ddc7017e4c
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