From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Brandon Richardson <brandon1024.br@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: format-patch: "magic" mbox timestamp
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:22:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqimac6bld.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2011102347320.18437@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:12:05 +0100 (CET)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> The original magic timestamp, however, was the one I reintroduced, and as
> you can see from the part I quoted above, I only imitated the original
> script.
That's almost a lifetime ago that I totally forgot that it was
original a shell script.
It indeed does this:
+ case "$mbox" in
+ t)
+ echo 'From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001' ;# UNIX "From" line
+ mailScript="$mailScript"'
+ s|^|Subject: [PATCH'"$num"'] |'
+ ;;
which clearly shows that "nobody" was chosen to mimic a real mailbox
(i.e. unlike what Brandon said in the other message, the <mailbox>
may not have "@" <domain> after <local-part>).
In any case, I think what's more important is after 15 years, if any
implementation of the /etc/magic database actually take advantage of
that magic date as the "magic" signal to identify a format-patch
output. Despite the wishes of original authors and designers of Git
and its format-patch output, perhaps no /etc/magic author noticed it,
in which case it is safe to use other randomly picked dates, or the
timestamp of underlying commits. Otherwise, changing the "magic"
timestamp would introduce a needless regression.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-10 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 21:54 format-patch: "magic" mbox timestamp Brandon Richardson
2020-11-10 23:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-10 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-11-10 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
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