Document date formats accepted by parse_date()

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
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@@ -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 b8834baced4b25d6df47eb578c4d745d23e8cc73..4fec5d5e3869d1f963c935534799c22fc52c46a8 100644 (file)
--- 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
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index c37c21e4e3e5ced40fbbd7675bd41f8da7454de5..de3435d39780278d974a8ac929873e69b21c67af 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
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@@ -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
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