On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 4:12 PM Victory Osikwemhe
<zombieleet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The current content of date-formats.txt under the RFC 2822 section
> specifies 'The standard email format' whereas the format specified
> is a date format
>
> Signed-off-by: Victory Osikwemhe <zombieleet...@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Git internal format::
>  RFC 2822::
> -       The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
> +       The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example
>         `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.

Given that not everyone is going to know (or be motivated to discover)
that RFC 2822 is about email, I wonder if this change could make the
text even more self-describing by instead saying this:

    The standard email date format ...

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