[PATCH 08 of 11] [RFC] Add a "--date-from FILE" option to some commands

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:49:46PM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:50:45PM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> >># HG changeset patch
> >># User Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus at oberhumer.com>
> >># Date 1182775580 -7200
> >># Node ID 9dec45eed1ed8c6b818563aaa2bb233a611f5768
> >># Parent  da57c9e729038e4e10db387905f39c180210b869
> >>[RFC] Add a "--date-from FILE" option to some commands.
> >
> >What's this for?
> 
> I had been manually converting some repos from some obsolete VC system and 
> found "hg commit --date-from somefile" extremely useful.

How about --date "@path"?

Maybe that's too clever.

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