From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932488AbVKHDtL (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:49:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932485AbVKHDtL (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:49:11 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:18585 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932465AbVKHDtJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:49:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:48:57 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Al Viro cc: Neil Brown , "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [PATCH 3/18] allow callers of seq_open do allocation themselves In-Reply-To: <20051108033040.GQ7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20051107190340.129bc8c3.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <17264.6769.472245.973213@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20051108033040.GQ7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Al Viro wrote: > > git format-patch and used by git applymbox and friends... Note that git applymbox can (and normally does) take the date in regular RFC 822 email format too, so it's really git format-patch that is the culprit here. It _could_ try to turn it back into a regular date, but just uses the git internal format because it's easy, lazy, and unambigious. The easy and lazy parts are probably not very strong arguments. The unambigious part is the thing that makes it a killer format. Linus