From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael Dulfer" <rafael@dulfer.be>,
"Andrei Rybak" <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>,
"Rafael Dulfer" <rafael.dulfer@gmail.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rev-list: clarify git-log default date format
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:15:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+2R2qIVQG9hJpEA@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqcz6av3ta.fsf_-_@gitster.g>
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@pobox.com>
> ---
> * 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.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-16 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-01 15:57 [PATCH] rev-list: clarify git-log default date format Rafael Dulfer
2023-02-01 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-01 22:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-02-01 22:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-02 11:37 ` Rafael Dulfer
2023-02-02 16:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-02 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-16 0:42 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2023-02-16 2:15 ` Jeff King [this message]
2023-02-16 2:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-16 16:29 ` [PATCH v3] " Junio C Hamano
2023-02-16 17:24 ` Jeff King
2023-02-01 22:47 ` [PATCH] " Jeff King
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