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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 91b3a72bda..cad711ce0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -270,13 +270,13 @@ depending on a few rules: + -- 1. If the starting point is specified as `ref@{Nth}`, show the index -format. + format. + 2. If the starting point was specified as `ref@{now}`, show the -timestamp format. + timestamp format. + 3. If neither was used, but `--date` was given on the command line, show -the timestamp in the format requested by `--date`. + the timestamp in the format requested by `--date`. + 4. Otherwise, show the index format. -- @@ -836,6 +836,13 @@ Note that the `-local` option does not affect the seconds-since-epoch value (which is always measured in UTC), but does switch the accompanying timezone value. + +`--date=human` shows the timezone if the timezone does not match the +current time-zone, and doesn't print the whole date if that matches +(ie skip printing year for dates that are "this year", but also skip +the whole date itself if it's in the last few days and we can just say +what weekday it was). For older dates the hour and minute is also +omitted. ++ `--date=unix` shows the date as a Unix epoch timestamp (seconds since 1970). As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local` has no effect. |