Subject: bug#25565: mark-whole-buffer and unnecessary (point) call

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 17:25:48 +0200

> From: dptd dptd <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 09:23:40 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> >> Btw. why in my patch next to the ID is so strange date? Mon Sep 17
> >> 00:00:00 2001?
> > 
> > I don't know.  What did you do to produce the patch?
> 
> When on my feature branch: git format-patch master (same story for git format-patch -1)

It's the standard "magic from" string, see the man page of git
format-patch.