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Doc update. * ug/doc-commit-approxidate: doc: mention approxidates for git-commit --date
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Documentation/date-formats.txt

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DATE FORMATS
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The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`, `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables
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and the `--date` option
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endif::git-commit[]
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The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables
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support the following date formats:
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Git internal format::
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NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats:
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`YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`.
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ifdef::git-commit[]
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In addition to recognizing all date formats above, the `--date` option
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will also try to make sense of other, more human-centric date formats,
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such as relative dates like "yesterday" or "last Friday at noon".
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endif::git-commit[]

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