From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:06:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: `--date` in `git-commit` accepts approxidates Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 06:52:02PM +0000, Utku Gultopu via GitGitGadget wrote: > +ifdef::git-commit[] > +In addition to recognizing all date formats above, the `--date` option > +will also try to make sense of other, more human-centric date formats, > +such as relative dates like "yesterday" or "last Friday at noon". For > +further details on what kind of formats are accepted, please refer to > +the `approxidate_careful` function in `date.c` file in Git source code. > +endif::git-commit[] OK. This is still referring to `approxidate_careful`, which may not be meaningful to most users. But at least it makes a best effort at a hand-waving definition before then. :) I'd probably omit the final sentence entirely (as it may simply confuse people who don't know how to find Git's source), but I'm OK with it either way. -Peff