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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] incorrect search result returned when using git log with a
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:15:44 -0800
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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