Re: date and -r {DATE}

John Belmonte wrote:
> It's a shame that I can't use the output of GNU date for Subversion
> revisions because svn demands a colon in the time zone offset. Shouldn't
> this be fixed?
>
> $ svn diff -r {`date --iso-8601=seconds -d '2 hours ago'`}
> svn: Syntax error in revision argument '{2005-04-21T20:46:05-0400}'

Works for me with Subversion trunk r14462. Maybe you are using an old version?

$ date --iso-8601=seconds -d '2 hours ago'
2005-04-27T11:20:28+0100
$ svn diff -r{`date --iso-8601=seconds -d '2 hours ago'`}
Index: subversion/include/svn_client.h
[...]

- Julian

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Received on Wed Apr 27 14:23:47 2005