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Re: [RFC 5/5] Support 'master@2 hours ago' syntax

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 17, 2006, 14:46 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0605170745270.10823@g5.osdl.org>
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On Wed, 17 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> This does not allow '2006-05-17 00:00:00' as the timespec, and
> the documentation carefully avoids giving that example, but I
> think it is better to spell that limitation out.

It doesn't? The "approxidate()" function should handle any reasonable date specifier, and the above is certainly more than reasonable.

Why doesn't approxidate handle it?
		Linus
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