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

[Brendan Cully]

On Monday, 25 June 2007 at 17:49, 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.

$(date -r ...) should do about the same, I think.