[PATCH] mercurial/stable: Add a new -i/--isodate option to `debugstate'

[Matt Mackall]

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 03:47 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2008-01-11 19:29, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> >On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 23:35 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> # HG changeset patch
> >> # User Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
> >> # Date 1200087056 -7200
> >> # Node ID 03c1fb34b2fa9d783b6e37a9c11f938a2dbd4064
> >> # Parent  1b230f506346a139344ad80005d90487f56c4ca2
> >> Add a new -i/--isodate option to `debugstate'
> >>
> >> The localized version of date/time displayed by the '%x %X'
> >> format may vary depending on the current timezone setup.  When
> >> debugstate runs with the new -i/--isodate option, it will always
> >> display the date using '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' as the strftime format
> >> string.  This makes debugstate output more predictable, and
> >> easier to parse in an automated manner.
> >
> > Why don't we just make this output fixed?
> 
> No objection from me.  The `%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' format enabled by the -i
> option in the patch is as close as `fixed' we can get.  I was just
> reluctant to change the default output of debugstate, in case other
> people already depend on the previous format.

Ok, feel free to send a one-line patch against main. This doesn't really
make sense for -stable.

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