Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 04:42:25PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> The documentation mistakenly said that the default format was >> similar to RFC 2822 format and tried to specify it by enumerating >> differences, which had two problems: >> >> * There are some more differences from the 2822 format that are not >> mentioned; worse yet >> >> * The default format is not modeled after RFC 2822 format at all. >> As can be seen in f80cd783 (date.c: add "show_date()" function., >> 2005-05-06), it is a derivative of ctime(3) format. >> >> Stop saying that it is similar to RFC 2822, and rewrite the >> description to explain the format without requiring the reader to >> know any other format. >> >> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> * The discussion stalled and the topic was left in limbo for a few >> weeks. Let's attempt to reboot it instead of silently waiting >> for a rerolled version from the original author. > > Thanks for keeping this moving. The proposed text looks great to me. Thanks, but the formatting is broken, and needs a line with "--" on it at the end. What I will queue on 'seen' already has the correction.
