The comment associated with the date parsing code for three numbers separated with slashes or dashes implied we wanted to interpret using this order: yyyy-mm-dd yyyy-dd-mm mm-dd-yy dd-mm-yy However, the actual code had the last two wrong, and making it prefer dd-mm-yy format over mm-dd-yy. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> --- * Spotted, thanks to Len Brown and Andrew Morton. date.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) f5cd7df6e8322a0b783668b31881ab95a5ce33bd diff --git a/date.c b/date.c index 416ea57..18a0710 100644 --- a/date.c +++ b/date.c @@ -257,10 +257,10 @@ static int match_multi_number(unsigned l break; } /* mm/dd/yy ? */ - if (is_date(num3, num2, num, tm)) + if (is_date(num3, num, num2, tm)) break; /* dd/mm/yy ? */ - if (is_date(num3, num, num2, tm)) + if (is_date(num3, num2, num, tm)) break; return 0; } -- 1.3.0.rc2.g110c - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html