Re: -r{DATE} with cvs-like relative dates?

Warren Young wrote:
> Is there a reason Subversion doesn't yet support fuzzy dates like
> "yesterday", or "3 weeks ago"? This is the only thing about CVS that I
> miss in Subversion. It makes backing up to a previous state in an ad
> hoc way much easier.

GNU date will handle these for you.

> svn up -r{10 days ago}

This works:

  svn up -r{"$(date -d '10 days ago' '+%F %T')"}

Note that the date --iso-8601 option is deprecated. A new --rfc-3339
will appear in the future. So I would avoid that format (suggested in
the svn docs) until things settle.

Bob

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Received on Wed Sep 21 18:19:19 2005