[PATCH] Specified the expected formats of dates and timestamps in rev-list-options.

From: Rhodes, Kate <masukomi@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2008, 03:41 UTC
Message-ID: <FC7C7E68-1D91-4719-9D11-8F65DEA43AFB@gmail.com>

The docs didn't give users any indication of the expected format of dates or timestamps. Now they do.

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Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev- 
list-options.txt
index a8138e2..bf0b881 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -124,15 +124,20 @@ limiting may be applied.

--since='date', --after='date'::

-	Show commits more recent than a specific date.
+	Show commits more recent than a date specified relatively
+	(e.g. "2 hours ago") or with any ISO 8601 or RFC 2822
+	date syntax.
+

--until='date', --before='date'::

-	Show commits older than a specific date.
+	Show commits older than a date specified relatively (e.g.
+	"2 hours ago") or with any ISO 8601 or RFC 2822 date syntax.

--max-age='timestamp', --min-age='timestamp'::

	Limit the commits output to specified time range.
+	The 'timestamp' should be the interger seconds since the epoch.

--author='pattern', --committer='pattern'::

-- 
1.5.4.1.1278.gc75be