On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:36:46PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Dmitry V. Levin" <l...@altlinux.org> writes:
> 
> > This fixes "hg" patch format support for locales other than C and en_*.
> > Before the change, git-am was making "Date:" line from hg changeset
> > metadata according to the current locale, and this line was rejected
> > later with "invalid date format" diagnostics because localized date
> > strings are not supported.
> >
> > Reported-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <gle...@altlinux.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org>
> > ---
> >
> >  v3: alternative implementation using setlocale(LC_TIME, "C")
> >
> >  git-am.sh | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
> > index c682d34..8677d8c 100755
> > --- a/git-am.sh
> > +++ b/git-am.sh
> > @@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ split_patches () {
> >                     # Since we cannot guarantee that the commit message is 
> > in
> >                     # git-friendly format, we put no Subject: line and just 
> > consume
> >                     # all of the message as the body
> > -                   perl -M'POSIX qw(strftime)' -ne 'BEGIN { $subject = 0 }
> > +                   perl -M'POSIX qw(strftime :locale_h)' -ne '
> > +                           BEGIN { setlocale(LC_TIME, "C"); $subject = 0 }
> 
> I still haven't convinced myself that this is an improvement over
> the simple "LC_ALL=C LANG=C perl ..." approach.

Personally I prefer 2nd edition that is simpler and does the right thing
(not that LC_ALL=C is necessary and sufficient, you neither need to add
things like LANG=C nor can relax it to LC_TIME=C).


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