* [RFC PATCH] doc: change 'The standard email format' to 'The standard date format'
@ 2019-06-01 20:12 Victory Osikwemhe
2019-06-02 6:33 ` Eric Sunshine
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Victory Osikwemhe @ 2019-06-01 20:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git; +Cc: Victory Osikwemhe
The current content of date-formats.txt under the RFC 2822 section
specifies 'The standard email format' whereas the format specified
is a date format
Signed-off-by: Victory Osikwemhe <zombieleetnca@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/date-formats.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
index 6926e0a4c8..1e1acb3826 100644
--- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Git internal format::
For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is `+0100`.
RFC 2822::
- The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
+ The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example
`Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.
ISO 8601::
--
2.20.1
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* Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change 'The standard email format' to 'The standard date format'
2019-06-01 20:12 [RFC PATCH] doc: change 'The standard email format' to 'The standard date format' Victory Osikwemhe
@ 2019-06-02 6:33 ` Eric Sunshine
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Sunshine @ 2019-06-02 6:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Victory Osikwemhe; +Cc: Git List
On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 4:12 PM Victory Osikwemhe
<zombieleetnca@gmail.com> wrote:
> The current content of date-formats.txt under the RFC 2822 section
> specifies 'The standard email format' whereas the format specified
> is a date format
>
> Signed-off-by: Victory Osikwemhe <zombieleetnca@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Git internal format::
> RFC 2822::
> - The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
> + The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example
> `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.
Given that not everyone is going to know (or be motivated to discover)
that RFC 2822 is about email, I wonder if this change could make the
text even more self-describing by instead saying this:
The standard email date format ...
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