[PATCH 2/2] Document date formats accepted by parse_date()
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Documentation/date-formats.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt | 1 +
Documentation/git-commit.txt | 2 ++
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create mode 100644 Documentation/date-formats.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..626c887
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+DATE FORMATS
+------------
+
+The GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables
+ifdef::git-commit[]
+and the `--date` option
+endif::git-commit[]
+support the following date formats:
+
+Git native format::
+ It is `<unix timestamp> <timezone offset>`, where `<unix
+ timestamp>` is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
+ `<timezone offset>` is a positive or negative offset from UTC.
+ For example CET (which is 2 hours ahead UTC) is `+0200`.
+
+RFC 2822::
+ The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for example
+ `Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200`.
+
+ISO 8601::
+ Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example
+ `2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the
+ `T` character as well.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index b8834ba..4fec5d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog
entry is not provided via "<" redirection, 'git-commit-tree' will just wait
for one to be entered and terminated with ^D.
+include::date-formats.txt[]
Diagnostics
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index cbbbeeb..17783b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ specified.
these files are also staged for the next commit on top
of what have been staged before.
+:git-commit: 1
+include::date-formats.txt[]
EXAMPLES
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1.6.5.2
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>