We are about to add a new set of supported date formats and do not want
to have to maintain the same list in several different bits of
documentation. Refer to git-rev-list(1) which contains the full list of
supported formats.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
returns an empty string instead.
As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for
-the date by adding one of `:default`, `:relative`, `:short`, `:local`,
-`:iso8601`, `:rfc2822` or `:raw` to the end of the fieldname; e.g.
-`%(taggerdate:relative)`.
+the date by adding `:` followed by date format name (see the
+values the `--date` option to linkgit::git-rev-list[1] takes).
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