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diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c000f08 --- /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 b8834ba..4fec5d5 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 c37c21e..de3435d 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 -------- |