From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:32:19 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] manual: cvs: document that a date can be used instead of a tag In-Reply-To: References: <1429376067-9228-1-git-send-email-fabio.porcedda@gmail.com> <1429376067-9228-3-git-send-email-fabio.porcedda@gmail.com> <20150419081028.GB4313@free.fr> Message-ID: <20150420173219.GA4057@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Fabio, All, On 2015-04-19 12:08 +0200, Fabio Porcedda spake thusly: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > On 2015-04-18 18:54 +0200, Fabio Porcedda spake thusly: [--SNIP--] > >> - +LIBFOO_VERSION+ is 'mandatory' and 'must' be a timestamp. > >> + +LIBFOO_VERSION+ is 'mandatory' and 'must' be a tag or a date. > > > > I'd like we document the format of the date we recognise. Because, IIRC, > > cvs accepts 'yesterday' as a date format, and that would be interpreted > > as a tag with the current code. > > > > So maybe, just state something like: > > > > ... or a date (YYYYMMDD:hhmmss) > > What about this: > (--
[T[]] e.g 2015-12-20 or 2015-12-20T1010) Well, this is exactly RFC3339; https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339#section-5.8 So we may just state smehing along the lines of: ... or a date (formatted as defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339[RFC 3339]). But I'd have to agree that it is not user-friendly, so we still want a complete example, like so: ... or a date (formatted as defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339[RFC 3339], like --
[T:[:[.sss]]] e.g 2015-12-20 or 2015-12-20T10:10 or even 2015-12-20T16:42:12.467923; for complet ereference, see the http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/cvs-1.12.11/cvs.html#Date-input-formats[CVS manual]). Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'