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| author | Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> | 2009-12-03 00:49:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-12-03 12:41:37 -0800 |
| commit | 788070a261ecc3a37a7e0ed9301ecec4a333586d (patch) | |
| tree | 457f81b8a0315a1ccc29b568c4814c835bf88c17 /Documentation/date-formats.txt | |
| parent | 02b47cd77e4af40da95a74c90846965a2ea6999b (diff) | |
| download | git-788070a261ecc3a37a7e0ed9301ecec4a333586d.tar.gz | |
Document date formats accepted by parse_date()
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c000f08a9d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +DATE FORMATS +------------ + +The GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables +ifdef::git-commit[] +and the `--date` option +endif::git-commit[] +support the following date formats: + +Git internal format:: + It is `<unix timestamp> <timezone offset>`, where `<unix + timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. + `<timezone offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC. + For example CET (which is 2 hours ahead UTC) is `+0200`. + +RFC 2822:: + The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example + `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`. + +ISO 8601:: + Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example + `2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the + `T` character as well. ++ +NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats: +`YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`. |