Minor documentation improvements, as suggested on the Git mailing list by Horst H. von Brand and Karl Hasselström. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 11 ++++++----- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 0c44761..01f4c8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ If the local offset is not available in the source material, use ``+0000'', or the most common local offset. For example many organizations have a CVS repository which has only ever been accessed by users who are located in the same location and timezone. In this -case the offset from UTC can be easily assumed. +case a reasonable offset from UTC could be assumed. + Unlike the `rfc2822` format, this format is very strict. Any variation in formatting will cause gfi to reject the value. @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ variation in formatting will cause gfi to reject the value. This is the standard email format as described by RFC 2822. + An example value is ``Tue Feb 6 11:22:18 2007 -0500''. The Git -parser is accurate, but a little on the lenient side. Its the +parser is accurate, but a little on the lenient side. It is the same parser used by gitlink:git-am[1] when applying patches received from email. + @@ -205,14 +205,15 @@ contained in an RFC 2822 date string is used to adjust the date value to UTC prior to storage. Therefore it is important that this information be as accurate as possible. + -If the source material is formatted in RFC 2822 style dates, +If the source material uses RFC 2822 style dates, the frontend should let gfi handle the parsing and conversion (rather than attempting to do it itself) as the Git parser has been well tested in the wild. + Frontends should prefer the `raw` format if the source material -is already in UNIX-epoch format, or is easily convertible to -that format, as there is no ambiguity in parsing. +already uses UNIX-epoch format, can be coaxed to give dates in that +format, or its format is easiliy convertible to it, as there is no +ambiguity in parsing. `now`:: Always use the current time and timezone. The literal -- 1.5.0.rc3.175.g6506 - To unsubscribe from this list: 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