Package: git Version: 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy1 $ git-show --date '6 months ago' xen/Makefile fatal: unknown date format 6 months ago $ git-show --date 'now -6 months' xen/Makefile fatal: unknown date format now -6 months $ git-show --date "`date -d 'now -6 months'`" xen/Makefile fatal: unknown date format Sun Jul 6 17:01:31 BST 2014 $ git-show --date "`date -R -d 'now -6 months'`" xen/Makefile fatal: unknown date format Sun, 06 Jul 2014 17:01:47 +0100 $ git-show --date "`date --iso-8601 -d 'now -6 months'`" xen/Makefile fatal: unknown date format 2014-07-06 $ git-show --date "`date --iso-8601=minutes -d 'now -6 months'`" xen/Makefile fatal: unknown date format 2014-07-06T17:02+0100 $ git-show --date "`date --rfc-3339=seconds -d 'now -6 months'`" xen/Makefile fatal: unknown date format 2014-07-06 17:03:01+01:00 $ git-show --date "`date --rfc-3339=date -d 'now -6 months'`" xen/Makefile fatal: unknown date format 2014-07-06 $
IMO git should accept all of these, not none of them. If that's not acceptable it should at least accept ISO-8601. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org