From 788070a261ecc3a37a7e0ed9301ecec4a333586d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Vajna Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:49:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Document date formats accepted by parse_date() Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/date-formats.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt | 1 + Documentation/git-commit.txt | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/date-formats.txt diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c000f08a9 --- /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 ` `, where `` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. + `` 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`. diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index b8834bace..4fec5d5e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog entry is not provided via "<" redirection, 'git-commit-tree' will just wait for one to be entered and terminated with ^D. +include::date-formats.txt[] Diagnostics ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index c37c21e4e..de3435d39 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ specified. these files are also staged for the next commit on top of what have been staged before. +:git-commit: 1 +include::date-formats.txt[] EXAMPLES -------- -- 2.30.2