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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Caspar Zhang <caspar@casparzhang.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Gris Ge <fge@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] incorrect search result returned when using git log with a future date parameter
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:15:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130130221544.GA15680@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsj5ijvei.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> When it is fed 2013-02-12, it is ambiguous and "approxidate" can and
> should use whatever heuristics (including rejection of future) to
> guess what the user wanted, but 2013-02-13 cannot be interpreted in
> any other way, so we should parse it as such.

FWIW, if you said 02/12/2013, I'd agree, but I've never seen someone
using 2013-02-12 to mean December 2.

So that suggests another possible tweak on top. :)

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-30 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-30 11:30 [BUG] incorrect search result returned when using git log with a future date parameter Caspar Zhang
2013-01-30 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 22:15   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-01-30 22:22     ` Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-30 11:28 Caspar Zhang

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