Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ident: die on bogus date format

From: Sergio Callegari <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:00:45 +0100

Thanks for looking (and coding) into it!

For my usage case, a warning would be ok too. If the commit generates a warning,
one can notice the warning and --amend the commit.

One can perhaps have the warning now and maybe an
error from version 1.8, so: (i) we are sure that the different behavior does not 
break anything and
(ii) there is time to move the fmt_ident up in the code so that it is invoked 
earlier
(to avoid the burden of writing the commit message and then seeing the commit 
aborted).

By the way, note that I got into the issue by trying to use --date forgetting 
the time.
Don't know if it could make sense to accept the date with some default time in 
this case.

Regards

Sergio