Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: updated documentation for git commit --date

From: "Chinmoy via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 10:19:49 +0000

From: Chinmoy Chakraborty <[email-masked]>

This commit lists the special strings used with `--date`
in `git-commit.txt` and also a brief explanation about
the strings in `date-formats.txt`.

Signed-off-by: Chinmoy Chakraborty <[email-masked]>
---
    Documentation: updated documentation for git commit --date
    
    This commit lists the special strings used with --date in git-commit.txt
    and also a brief explanation about the strings in date-formats.txt.
    
    Signed-off-by: Chinmoy Chakraborty [email-masked]

    Related Issue
    =============
    
    #302

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-918%2Fchinmoy12c%2Fissue_302-v1
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Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/918

 Documentation/date-formats.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/git-commit.txt   |  5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
index 99c455f51c04..66dae179eb66 100644
--- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,38 @@
+[[DATE FORMATS]]
 DATE FORMATS
 ------------
 
+`yesterday`::
+	Change commit time to yesterday, that is, 24 hours ago.
+
+`noon`::
+	Change commit time to noon, that is 12:00. If current
+	time is less than 12:00, the time will be set to 12:00
+	on the previous day, else it will be set to 12:00 on
+	the same day.
+
+`midnight`::
+	Change commit time to midnight, that is, 00:00.
+
+`tea`::
+	Change commit time to 17:00(tea time). If the current
+	time is less than 17:00, the time will be set to 17:00
+	on the previous day, else it will be set to 17:00 on
+	the same day.
+
+`PM`::
+	Change commit time from AM to PM. If the current time
+	is already greater than 12:00, then the time remains
+	unaltered.
+
+`AM`::
+	Change commit time from PM to AM. If current time is
+	already less than 12:00, then the time remains
+	unaltered.
+
+`now`::
+	Change commit time to current time.
+
 The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables
 support the following date formats:
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 3c69f461c9af..b2f51cdcafaf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -176,7 +176,10 @@ See linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details.
 	the commit author is then copied from the first such commit found.
 
 --date=<date>::
-	Override the author date used in the commit.
+	Override the author date used in the commit. The value of <date>
+	may be any one of the following special values - "yesterday",
+	"noon", "midnight", "tea", "PM", "AM", "never", "now"
+	(see <<DATE FORMATS>>).
 
 -m <msg>::
 --message=<msg>::

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