Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
>> That is just a fake random date to make the Unix-From line recognizable
>> by common MUA and does not have anything to do with your commit objects.
>
> So how about this:
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ void show_log(struct rev_info *opt, const char *sep)
> else
> subject = "Subject: ";
>
> - printf("From %s Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001\n", sha1);
> + printf("From %s %s\n", sha1, show_date(time(NULL), 0, 0));
I actually once tried to change it to git's birthday (Thu Apr 7
15:13:13 2005 -0700) and I recall that it turned out that some
people's scripts (or perhaps MUA) were broken and cared what was
before "7" (nothing, as show_date() does, " " to align to two
columns per date, "0" to zero-pad align) on the Unix-From line
and discarded that update.
I do not think it is worth changing it. Who's hurting with the
current behaviour? In other words, is it broken? Unix-From
lines are there only to separate each piece of e-mail in the
mbox and otherwise is not used. send-email, am, nor imap-send
should care anything beyond the leading "From ", and mailsplit
validates only that what's around the last colon near the end of
line looks like time and year.
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