From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Victory Osikwemhe <zombieleetnca@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] doc: change 'The standard email format' to 'The standard date format'
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 02:33:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQ4+nCLfrh2s76_RbLuGCOt7C3xu9HoSQstAeB585vZBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190601201212.19165-1-zombieleetnca@gmail.com>
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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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 [this message]
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