From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:46:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 5/5] Support 'master@2 hours ago' syntax
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605170745270.10823@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqtwhpum.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



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