Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:27:32AM +0100, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +--date=<date>::
>> + Override the date used in the commit. The format is the Git
>> + native one and is `<time> SP <offutc>`.
>
> I just noticed that fmt_ident() calls parse_date(), so other formats are
> supported as well.
>
> Is there any documentation describing what does parse_date() accept?
>
> Based on t0006-date.sh and the comments in the source, I see 3 supported
> formats:
>
> 1) <unix timestamp> <timezone>
>
> 2) A format like 2008-12-02 18:04:00
>
> 3) RFC 2822 (Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200)
The above are all supported (you can label 2 as ISO even though the
official ISO8601 wants "T" instead of " " between date and time).
For more amusing ones, see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/12241
and follow the discussion there ;-)
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