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

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Feb 27, 2008, 13:13 UTC
Message-ID
<20080227131300.GT31441@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.LSU.1.00.0802271231080.22527@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 12:33:22PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> > git svn log mimics the timezone converting behaviour of svn log, but this was
>
> This line is definitely too long.  Please make commit messages readable on
> an 80-character display with a 4-character indent, i.e. 76
> characters/line.
right, corrected.
> Yes, very nice.  Although I find it sad that an opportunity was lost for a
> complainer to make good.
oops :(
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> > ++
> > +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
>
> I think that this note should come before the "Any other arguments" line.
moved.
 Documentation/git-svn.txt |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 340f1be..bec9acc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ New features:
 	our version of --pretty=oneline
 --
 +
+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.
++
 Any other arguments are passed directly to `git log'
 
 'blame'::
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1.5.4
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Message 7 of 11 in “git-svn messing with timezones”
  1. Tim StoakesFeb 26, 2008
  2. Eric WongFeb 27, 2008
  3. Tim StoakesFeb 27, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 27, 2008
  5. Documentation/git svn log: add a note about timezones.Miklos Vajna, Feb 27, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinFeb 27, 2008
  7. Documentation/git svn log: add a note about timezones.Miklos Vajna, Feb 27, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinFeb 27, 2008
  9. Tim StoakesFeb 27, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2008
  11. Seth FalconFeb 27, 2008

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