[PATCH] Documentation/git svn log: add a note about timezones.

From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Feb 27, 2008, 12:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20080227122929.GS31441@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802271039220.22527@racer.site>

git svn log mimics the timezone converting behaviour of svn log, but this was undocumented.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:40:37AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Note: if all you want is such a strange behaviour as svn's (I mean, why
> does it insist to show the dates as if they were done in _your_
> timezone?):
>
>       git log --date=local
>
> > Is it documented anywhere?
>
> AFAICT it waits to be written.  By you.

something like this?

 Documentation/git-svn.txt |    4 ++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 340f1be..e1babf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ New features:
 --
 +
 Any other arguments are passed directly to `git log'
++
+NOTE: SVN itself only stores times in UTC and nothing else. The regular svn
+client converts the UTC time to the local time (or based on the TZ=
+environment). This command has the same behaviour.
 
 'blame'::
        Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file. This is

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