Control: severity -1 minor
Control: retitle -1 clarify "unknown date format" message
Ian Jackson writes ("git does not accept any date format from date(1) !"):
> $ 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
It turns out that I meant something different, and foolishly thought
that --date would take a date. It doesn't it takes a string
requesting a date format.
I would have been saved some flailing if the error message had
something like
unknown date output format specification `blah'
Thanks,
Ian.
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