Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: use current date in mbox 'From COMMIT DATE' header line

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:35:31 +0200

Chris Webb wrote:
> Chris Webb <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Put the current date in the 'From COMMIT DATE' header line instead of using
> > the fixed date 'Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001'. A DATE_UTC mode for show_date() is
> > introduced so we can easily generate this line in the correct format.
> 
> ...but this will break t4013-diff-various which expects the exact date
> string 'Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001' in the mbox header. Patch to fix this test
> to follow!

Have you read

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/124082/focus=124092

Not that I really care either way, but you should at least convince us
why it is broken as it stands :-)

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch