Hi,
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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 only found out now (after some Googling, instigated by your reply) that
the mbox format is _borked_. There seem to be so many variants, and I
erroneously assumed that if it works in pine, it works everywhere...
> I do not think it is worth changing it. Who's hurting with the
> current behaviour? In other words, is it broken?
You can order by arrived-date. But that is such a minor issue that I agree
nothing needs to be changed.
Ciao,
Dscho
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