Re: [Gnu-arch-users] minor patch-log file format questions

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > (1) Why are empty headers included?  

No particular reason.   

    > (2) If you use commit's -L option, why is the single description line
    >     repeated twice, once in the Summary: line, and once in the log body?
    >     I think it should just be in the summary line (with the log body
    >     either being empty, or containing the merge record stuff).

I don't think it matters much.  This format is easier to read when
you're skipping past the headers just to look at the body of a log
message.


    > (3) Why are there two date headers?  I think the ISO-ish format date is
    >     nicer, but why not just put that in the Date: header, and drop the
    >     Standard-date: header?k

I don't know of any programs, yet, that actually use "Standard-date:"
but that's the intention -- to provide an easy-to-parse, easy-to-use
universal time code.

"Date:" is just whatever "pretty format" your system happens to
produce, in the timezone of the committer.

-t