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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-25 16:43:32 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-25 16:43:32 -0800 |
| commit | d228b6b23100b1d2634ee1f9d25f459702cdfc4b (patch) | |
| tree | d1c6884529f12d0951f75a653becd00f05f492c6 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'es/maintenance-of-bare-repositories' (diff) | |
| parent | doc: mention approxidates for git-commit --date (diff) | |
| download | tgif-d228b6b23100b1d2634ee1f9d25f459702cdfc4b.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'ug/doc-commit-approxidate'
Doc update.
* ug/doc-commit-approxidate:
doc: mention approxidates for git-commit --date
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/date-formats.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt index f1097fac69..99c455f51c 100644 --- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt @@ -1,10 +1,7 @@ DATE FORMATS ------------ -The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`, `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables -ifdef::git-commit[] -and the `--date` option -endif::git-commit[] +The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables support the following date formats: Git internal format:: @@ -26,3 +23,9 @@ ISO 8601:: + NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats: `YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`. + +ifdef::git-commit[] +In addition to recognizing all date formats above, the `--date` option +will also try to make sense of other, more human-centric date formats, +such as relative dates like "yesterday" or "last Friday at noon". +endif::git-commit[] |