From: Chinmoy Chakraborty <chinmoy12c@xxxxxxxxx>
This commit lists the special strings used with `--date`
in `git-commit.txt` and also a brief explanation about
the strings in `date-formats.txt`.
Signed-off-by: Chinmoy Chakraborty <chinmoy12c@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation: updated documentation for git commit --date
This commit lists the special strings used with --date in git-commit.txt
and also a brief explanation about the strings in date-formats.txt.
Signed-off-by: Chinmoy Chakraborty chinmoy12c@xxxxxxxxx
Related Issue
=============
#302
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-918%2Fchinmoy12c%2Fissue_302-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-918/chinmoy12c/issue_302-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/918
Documentation/date-formats.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/git-commit.txt | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
index 99c455f51c04..66dae179eb66 100644
--- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,38 @@
+[[DATE FORMATS]]
DATE FORMATS
------------
+`yesterday`::
+ Change commit time to yesterday, that is, 24 hours ago.
+
+`noon`::
+ Change commit time to noon, that is 12:00. If current
+ time is less than 12:00, the time will be set to 12:00
+ on the previous day, else it will be set to 12:00 on
+ the same day.
+
+`midnight`::
+ Change commit time to midnight, that is, 00:00.
+
+`tea`::
+ Change commit time to 17:00(tea time). If the current
+ time is less than 17:00, the time will be set to 17:00
+ on the previous day, else it will be set to 17:00 on
+ the same day.
+
+`PM`::
+ Change commit time from AM to PM. If the current time
+ is already greater than 12:00, then the time remains
+ unaltered.
+
+`AM`::
+ Change commit time from PM to AM. If current time is
+ already less than 12:00, then the time remains
+ unaltered.
+
+`now`::
+ Change commit time to current time.
+
The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables
support the following date formats:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 3c69f461c9af..b2f51cdcafaf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -176,7 +176,10 @@ See linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details.
the commit author is then copied from the first such commit found.
--date=<date>::
- Override the author date used in the commit.
+ Override the author date used in the commit. The value of <date>
+ may be any one of the following special values - "yesterday",
+ "noon", "midnight", "tea", "PM", "AM", "never", "now"
+ (see <<DATE FORMATS>>).
-m <msg>::
--message=<msg>::
base-commit: 84d06cdc06389ae7c462434cb7b1db0980f63860
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