From 01168a9d8967c57318f30c6760ecc1c05ea611ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:50:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention approxidates for git-commit --date We describe the more strict date formats accepted by GIT_COMMITTER_DATE, etc, but the --date option also allows the looser approxidate formats, as well. Unfortunately we don't have a good or complete reference for this format, but let's at least mention that it _is_ looser, and give a few examples. If we ever write separate, more complete date-format documentation, we should refer to it from here. Based-on-a-patch-by: Utku Gultopu Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/date-formats.txt | 11 +++++++---- 1 file 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[]