command line arguments. Parsers should ignore headers they
don't recognize.
-### Branch Headers
+Branch Headers
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If `--branch` is given, a series of header lines are printed with
information about the current branch.
------------------------------------------------------------
....
-### Changed Tracked Entries
+Changed Tracked Entries
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Following the headers, a series of lines are printed for tracked
entries. One of three different line formats may be used to describe
--------------------------------------------------------
....
-### Other Items
+Other Items
+^^^^^^^^^^^
Following the tracked entries (and if requested), a series of
lines will be printed for untracked and then ignored items
! <path>
-### Pathname Format Notes and -z
+Pathname Format Notes and -z
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
When the `-z` option is given, pathnames are printed as is and
without any quoting and lines are terminated with a NUL (ASCII 0x00)
author's). If `-local` is appended to the format (e.g.,
`iso-local`), the user's local time zone is used instead.
+
+--
`--date=relative` shows dates relative to the current time,
e.g. ``2 hours ago''. The `-local` option has no effect for
`--date=relative`.
-+
+
`--date=local` is an alias for `--date=default-local`.
-+
+
`--date=iso` (or `--date=iso8601`) shows timestamps in a ISO 8601-like format.
The differences to the strict ISO 8601 format are:
- a space between time and time zone
- no colon between hours and minutes of the time zone
-+
`--date=iso-strict` (or `--date=iso8601-strict`) shows timestamps in strict
ISO 8601 format.
-+
+
`--date=rfc` (or `--date=rfc2822`) shows timestamps in RFC 2822
format, often found in email messages.
-+
+
`--date=short` shows only the date, but not the time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` format.
-+
+
`--date=raw` shows the date as seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01
00:00:00 UTC), followed by a space, and then the timezone as an offset
from UTC (a `+` or `-` with four digits; the first two are hours, and
Note that the `-local` option does not affect the seconds-since-epoch
value (which is always measured in UTC), but does switch the accompanying
timezone value.
-+
+
`--date=human` shows the timezone if the timezone does not match the
current time-zone, and doesn't print the whole date if that matches
(ie skip printing year for dates that are "this year", but also skip
the whole date itself if it's in the last few days and we can just say
what weekday it was). For older dates the hour and minute is also
omitted.
-+
+
`--date=unix` shows the date as a Unix epoch timestamp (seconds since
1970). As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local`
has no effect.
-+
+
`--date=format:...` feeds the format `...` to your system `strftime`,
except for %z and %Z, which are handled internally.
Use `--date=format:%c` to show the date in your system locale's
preferred format. See the `strftime` manual for a complete list of
format placeholders. When using `-local`, the correct syntax is
`--date=format-local:...`.
-+
+
`--date=default` is the default format, and is similar to
`--date=rfc2822`, with a few exceptions:
-
+--
- there is no comma after the day-of-week
- the time zone is omitted when the local time zone is used