# [PATCH] Revert "git-am: catch missing author date early."

1 messages from 2007-12-06 to 2007-12-06. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/11152

## Junio C Hamano, 2007-12-06 01:20

Subject: [PATCH] Revert "git-am: catch missing author date early."
Message-ID: <7vodd4ipom.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vodd4ipom.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <7vir3conab.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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This reverts commit 6e9e0327b7d7f384d8a223b4bc40330ef3e7fb61.  People
can prepare a text file with Subject: and From: headers and feed it to
"am" (pretending the file is a piece of e-mail), and have actually been
doing so.  Strict checking for Date: breaks this established workflow,
which wants to record the time of the commit as the author time.

Thanks go to Jens Axboe for injection of sanity.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 git-am.sh |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index 2e40708..76c1c84 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -307,9 +307,9 @@ do
 	GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$(sed -n '/^Email/ s/Email: //p' "$dotest/info")"
 	GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$(sed -n '/^Date/ s/Date: //p' "$dotest/info")"
 
-	if test -z "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" || test -z "$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE"
+	if test -z "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
 	then
-		echo "Patch does not have valid authorship information."
+		echo "Patch does not have a valid e-mail address."
 		stop_here $this
 	fi
 
-- 
1.5.3.7-2132-gbd1cf

```