On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Alex Riesen<raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neither. This is not a date, but a part of "loosely defined" mbox format. > In the examples of mbox format I have found, the date in the From: line is generally the same as in the Date: line, albeit in a more ambiguous format. Further, the the git code treats it as a date and attempts to set it. It remains at the default date only because git_committer_info() is called without GIT_COMMITTER_DATE set. So is the code misleading? Was it designed to just meet the minimal requirement of having a date-like string to comform to the mbox format? What's the disadvantage to using the real commit date? -- Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html