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    Add 'human' date format documentation · 038a8788
    Stephen P. Smith authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    
    
    Display date and time information in a format similar to how people
    write dates in other contexts. If the year isn't specified then, the
    reader infers the date is given is in the current year.
    
    By not displaying the redundant information, the reader concentrates
    on the information that is different. The patch reports relative dates
    based on information inferred from the date on the machine running the
    git command at the time the command is executed.
    
    While the format is more useful to humans by dropping inferred
    information, there is nothing that makes it actually human. If the
    'relative' date format wasn't already implemented then using
    'relative' would have been appropriate.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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