From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:49:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Document date formats accepted by parse_date()
X-Git-Tag: v1.7.0-rc0~127^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=788070a261ecc3a37a7e0ed9301ecec4a333586d;p=git.git

Document date formats accepted by parse_date()

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c000f08a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+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 internal 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.
++
+NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats:
+`YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index b8834bace..4fec5d5e3 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 c37c21e4e..de3435d39 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
 --------