Re: Date processing should be more flexible

On Jul 2, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Alex Barba wrote:

> CVS has a very flexible date parser. I'd like svn to get some of
> that flexibility as well.

Yup, it's funny, Subversion used to use CVS's date parser (the same
bison file), so in the early days you could type something like 'svn
update -r {"two weeks ago"}'. But just before 1.0, we decided it
would be a nightmare to support, so quickly wrote our own date-parser
with a very limited set of formats.

Still, I agree, we should be able to parse "2005-7-5" as if it were
"2000-07-05". And it would be nice to use "2005/07/05" as well.

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Received on Sat Jul 2 17:33:53 2005