mercurial/help/dates.txt
author Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org>
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:07:29 +0900
changeset 38705 e4b270a32ba8
parent 19968 7bec3f697d76
permissions -rw-r--r--
revset: special case commonancestors(none()) to be empty set This matches the behavior of ancestor(none()). From an implementation perspective, ancestor() and commonancestors() are intersection, and ancestors() is union, so it would make some sense that commonancestors(none()) returned all revisions. However, ancestor(none()) isn't implemented as such, which breaks ancestor(x) == max(commonancestors(x)). From a user perspective, ancestors of nothing is nothing whichever type of operation the ancestor predicate does.

Some commands allow the user to specify a date, e.g.:

- backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
- log, revert, update: Select revision(s) by date.

Many date formats are valid. Here are some examples:

- ``Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006`` (local timezone assumed)
- ``Dec 6 13:18 -0600`` (year assumed, time offset provided)
- ``Dec 6 13:18 UTC`` (UTC and GMT are aliases for +0000)
- ``Dec 6`` (midnight)
- ``13:18`` (today assumed)
- ``3:39`` (3:39AM assumed)
- ``3:39pm`` (15:39)
- ``2006-12-06 13:18:29`` (ISO 8601 format)
- ``2006-12-6 13:18``
- ``2006-12-6``
- ``12-6``
- ``12/6``
- ``12/6/6`` (Dec 6 2006)
- ``today`` (midnight)
- ``yesterday`` (midnight)
- ``now`` - right now

Lastly, there is Mercurial's internal format:

- ``1165411109 0`` (Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 UTC)

This is the internal representation format for dates. The first number
is the number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). The
second is the offset of the local timezone, in seconds west of UTC
(negative if the timezone is east of UTC).

The log command also accepts date ranges:

- ``<DATE`` - at or before a given date/time
- ``>DATE`` - on or after a given date/time
- ``DATE to DATE`` - a date range, inclusive
- ``-DAYS`` - within a given number of days of today