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author | Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> | 2016-04-06 23:07:14 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-04-06 23:16:09 +0300 |
commit | f916ab0ccc1fbeee5a63ec29246ba99df7ff256f (patch) | |
tree | e5f53c5e581399569da07889b87caf067093ec2d /Documentation/technical | |
parent | 765428699a5381f113d19974720bc91b5bfeaf1d (diff) |
send-email: more meaningful Message-ID
Using a YYYYmmddHHMMSS date representation is more meaningful to
humans, especially when used for lookups on NNTP servers or linking
to archive sites via Message-ID (e.g. mid.gmane.org or
mid.mail-archive.com). This timestamp format more easily gives a
reader of the URL itself a rough date of a linked message compared
to having them calculate the seconds since the Unix epoch.
Furthermore, having the MUA name in the Message-ID seems to be a
rare oddity I haven't noticed outside of git-send-email. We
already have an optional X-Mailer header field to advertise for
us, so extending the Message-ID by 15 characters can make for
unpleasant Message-ID-based URLs to archive sites.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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