Re: [PATCH v3] am: invoke perl's strftime in C locale

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:36:46PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
> > index c682d34..8677d8c 100755
> > --- a/git-am.sh
> > +++ b/git-am.sh
> > @@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ split_patches () {
> >  			# Since we cannot guarantee that the commit message is in
> >  			# git-friendly format, we put no Subject: line and just consume
> >  			# all of the message as the body
> > -			perl -M'POSIX qw(strftime)' -ne 'BEGIN { $subject = 0 }
> > +			perl -M'POSIX qw(strftime :locale_h)' -ne '
> > +				BEGIN { setlocale(LC_TIME, "C"); $subject = 0 }
> 
> I still haven't convinced myself that this is an improvement over
> the simple "LC_ALL=C LANG=C perl ..." approach.

Yeah, I was the one who brought it up, but I think I was probably being
too nit-picky. It almost certainly doesn't matter, and the alternatives
are just as likely to cause problems.

> I am tempted to use the previous one that puts the whole process
> under LC_ALL=C instead, unless I hear a "we already depend on that
> elsewhere, look at $that_code".

I'm fine with that.

-Peff
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