Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone 0.48 released

[Thomas Keller]

Am 16.06.2010 13:48, schrieb Stephen Leake:
> Howard Spindel <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I've just installed release 0.48 on a Windoze machine.  It seems to work 
>> fine.
>>
>> However, I get a warning everytime it runs: date format '%x %X' cannot
>> be used for commit
> 
> mtn developers:
> 
> A partial real fix is delete the check in 'status', since the commit
> process can cope with unparseable user-specified date formats, whether
> on Win32 or Unix. However, that leaves the check in commit, which is
> still appropriate, for the case where the user specifies a date format
> that is not parseable; it partly explains why they don't see their
> chosen format in the commit comment they are editing. But the warning
> message could be clearer about that.
> 
> A better real fix is to not enable user-specified dates by default;
> users that want them can enable them, and specify the date format they
> want at the same time, and worry about whether it can be parsed.

I would only go so far for the Win32 version, if nothing else can be done.

> I also thought we replaced %x %X by something else; why is it showing up
> here?

In case it should have been %F %X before, then I've changed that for
openBSD compatibility. You can also spell it out of course, %Y-%m-%d %X.

Derek, Stephe: Can you two work out a reasonable fix so I can make a
point release tonight or at least tomorrow?

Thanks,
Thomas.

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